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The use of bio-inspiration to create new products and devices requires the development of new design tools and manufacturing technologies, as well as the education of students capable of using them. This paper explores education tools that emphasize bio-inspired product realization. This paper provides an overview of educational technologies and describes […]
Bioinspired manufacturing, in the sense of replicating the way nature fabricates, may hold great potential for supporting a socioeconomic transformation towards a sustainable society. Use of unmodified ubiquitous biological components suggests for a fundamentally sustainable manufacturing paradigm where materials are produced, transformed into products and degraded in closed regional systems with […]
NASA’s green aviation project is one step closer to developing technology that could make future airliners quieter and more fuel-efficient with the successful flight test of a wing surface that can change shape in flight. This past summer researchers replaced an airplane’s conventional aluminum flaps with advanced, shape-changing assemblies that form […]
A specie found in Australia name chiton Acanthopleura hirtosa, is discovered to be useful for future industrial materials due to its magnetic mineral teeth. This is shown through the quantum imaging of magnetic fields to analyze early mineralization. Through a diamond magnetic microscope, the magnetic field was measured depending on the […]
Welcome to the Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab, part of the Contextual Robotics Institute at the University of California, San Diego. Our research focuses on borrowing inspiration from nature to design automated systems with lifelike capabilities. For example, inspired by creatures like the starfish, we are designing soft robots composed of […]
Biofluorescent animals have been documented before, but most of them were aquatic. Scientists at the St. Cloud State University in Minnesota used blue light on 14 different families of amphibians and found that they all glowed in some way, each with different intensities and patterns. This was […]
Article Open Access Published: 10 December 2019 Bioinspired design of flexible armor based on chiton scales Matthew Connors, Ting Yang, Ahmed Hosny, Zhifei Deng, Fatemeh Yazdandoost, Hajar Massaadi, Douglas Eernisse, Reza Mirzaeifar, Mason N. Dean, James C. Weaver, Christine Ortiz & Ling Li Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 5413 (2019) […]
Pollinating insects, like honey bees, purposely cover themselves with millions of pollen particles that, if left ungroomed, would make sensing and controlled flight difficult. How do they get clean? We show that the hairs on insect eyes are tuned to the pollen they collect; namely, the hairs are spaced so that […]
In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
A remote control car usually reaches high speeds and topples over when making a corner. However, the mechanism of the Cheetah’s tail optimizes speed and turning which can be translated into a new device which can now reach new speeds while making a tight corner!
Current Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are greatly limited by being able to operate in air only. Designing multimodal MAVs that can fly effectively, dive into the water and retake flight would enable applications of distributed water quality monitoring, search and rescue operations and underwater exploration. While some can land on water, […]
This news article discusses how some amphibians absorb blue and ultraviolet light and can re-emit neon green light (which is not obvious to the human eye).
Bioinspired designs of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic materials have been an important and fascinating area of research in recent years for their extensive potential application prospects from industry to our daily life. Despite extensive progress, existing research achievements are far from real applications. From biomimetic performance to service […]
CN Bio Innovations, a cell culture company that has developed organ-on-chip laboratory instruments to improve the accuracy and efficiency of drug discovery, has announced it has raised $9 million USD (circa £6.9 million GBP) investment, led by CITIC Securities Investment Co., Ltd., and supported by existing investor CN Innovations Holdings Ltd.CN […]
Investigators at Scripps Research say they have found a new biological mechanism of insulin signaling. Their work, involving the roundworm C. elegans, reveals that a “decoy” receptor is at work in binding to insulin molecules and keeping them from sending signals for increased insulin production.
Soft climbing robots have attracted much attention of researchers for their potential applications on the wall or inside the tube. However, making a soft robot climb on the outer surface of a rod or tube by agile and efficient motion has long been […]
In a finding that could benefit drone design, award-winning research by a doctoral student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) shows that the undulating flight paths of monarch butterflies are actually more energy efficient than a straight-line path.
Biomimetic skin-like materials, capable of adapting shapes to variable environments and sensing external stimuli, are of great significance in a wide range of applications, including artificial intelligence, soft robotics, and smart wearable devices. However, such highly sophisticated intelligence has been mainly found in natural creatures while rarely realized in artificial materials. […]
Bio-inspired design is showing up in technology projects big and small, from telescopes inspired by lobster eyes to see more of space to swellable microneedle arrays that provide safer skin grafts, based on an insect with a similar swellable proboscis. Here is a look at how bio-inspired design is finding its […]
Mechanical properties such as strength, toughness and anisotropy are significant in 3D printing technology. Unfortunately, the strength and toughness are often mutually exclusive, and are therefore difficult to be enhanced simultaneously. Here, a bioinspired parallel-scan path is proposed to increase both the strength and toughness with in-plane isotropy. In this method, […]
Composites combine the desirable properties of several materials to exhibit enhanced physical, chemical, and mechanical properties that are different from their individual constituents. Some high-performance materials have been developed using this method. In the automobile, marine, and aerospace industries, such composites play key roles as they provide light-weight, superior mechanical and […]
A brain-flexing team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Beihang University has recently designed a soft Cthulhu-inspired arm that might have a variety of real-world applications, especially for those with impaired motor functions or physical handicaps. By imitating the concentration and […]
A bioinspired robotic flapping mechanism was designed to mimic the fast motion of impulsive jumping animals. A theoretical model is developed to predict the jumping height of various water-exiting bodies, which shows that the mass of the entrained fluid relative to the mass of the body limits the maximum jumping height. […]
Dinosaur skull bones discovered in Montana have been analyzed and found to contain evidence of DNA. Scientists discovered cells in the skull that were ‘in the process of dividing’ and they found “darkened balls” inside that indicate nuclei and/or chromosomes. While the discovery is fascinating, it is […]
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to reduce the impact of car accidents, it may be possible to study the force diverting physics of cockroaches to…
you see this type of head-bobbing stability in many avian creatures related to pigeons like chickens. the head ability to…
not like they taught horses how to run! this is an example of convergent evolution where both sea creatures and…
The brain functions in a similar way with neuronal connections. our brains are able to utilize the multiplicity of connections…