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Dr. David, the director of the Bioinspired and Medical Robotics Laboratory, engineered the “Minimally actuated Reconfigurable Continuous Track Robot” for search and rescue situations in complicated terrain. It can purposed for other applications such excavation, agriculture and crawling inside pipes for industrial maintenance. One Dr. David’s robot is also the SAW […]
The National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Bio-Inspired Materials was established in 2014 to be an internationally recognized hub for smart materials research, education, and innovation. In March 2020, NCCR’s Bioinspired Materials Principal Investigator, Professor Francesco Stellacci (from Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausann) won the prestigious Advanced Grant by […]
Living nature is the inspiration for many innovations and continues to serve as an invaluable resource to solve technical challenges. We find that unique surface characteristics of rice leaves and butterfly wings combine the shark skin (anisotropic flow leading to low drag) and lotus (superhydrophobic and self-cleaning) effects, producing what we […]
A micro-/nanoscale hierarchical rough structure inspired by the underwater superaerophobicity of fish scales was fabricated by ablation of a silicon surface by a femtosecond laser. The resultant silicon surface showed superhydrophilicity in air and became superaerophobic after immersion in water. Additionally, inspired by the underwater superaerophilicity of lotus leaves, we showed […]
Scientists at Insectta, Pte. Ltd. have tested and shown that circular manufacturing of a new bio-composite is possible through black soldier flies, which feed on food waste and produce an alternative to plastics.
This video clip shows the Goshawk and Tawny Owl gliding through a cloud of illuminated bubble volume. This recording of the aerodynamic footprint of birds can teach us how they use their tails to reduce drag.
This paper shows that a bio-inspired design methodology is an effective method to strengthen composite T-joints under bending loading. The ply angles in the laminate of a carbon/epoxy T-joint were tailored using an optimization program mimicking the evolutionary process of adaptive growth in […]
Natural structural color materials, especially those that can undergo reversible changes, are attracting increasing interest in a wide variety of research fields. Inspired by the natural creatures, many elaborately nanostructured photonic materials with variable structural colors were developed. These materials have found important applications in switches, display devices, sensors, and so […]
In this paper, a novel biologically-inspired algorithm, namely krill herd (KH) is proposed for solving optimization tasks. The KH algorithm is based on the simulation of the herding behavior of krill individuals. The minimum distances of each individual krill from food and from highest density of the herd are considered as […]
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I imagine that the neurological circuits underlying these processes are governed by both 2d spacing maps with their brains as…
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…