Tag: Biomimicry - Page 7
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5 Breakthrough Robots Built to Mimic Animals (Videos)
Biomimicry -- the art of mining nature for design solutions and technological breakthroughs -- has been behind some of the most promising, most pioneering robots to be created in recent years. From mule-imitating military walkers to butterfly-inspired
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Mutant Silkworms Produce Super Strong Spider Silk (Video)
Scientists have been studying for years how to mass produce spider silk, a super strong wonder-material that we could use for countless purposes, if we could make enough of it. While some researchers work on devising
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900 Foot Offshore Wind Turbine Mimics Spinning Sycamore Seeds (Video)
The mantra of offshore wind turbine design seems to be "Bigger! Bigger!" in order to get more power out of single turbines. But going hand in hand with making turbines bigger is that they become heavier. British engineers
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"Gut-Sliding" Movement of Caterpillars Inspires Soft-Bodied Robots
You're likely familiar with the way a caterpillar works its way up a stem or across a leaf -- that move-the-front-then-move-the-back process is one of their charms. But what you might not know is that a caterpillar
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Cheap, Energy-Efficient Robots that Build Houses (Slideshow)
Meet George Jetson: (FAB)BOTS are robots or machines that fabricate structures and spatial formations for architecture.
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Cheap, Energy-Efficient Robots that Build Houses
Meet George Jetson: (FAB)BOTS are robots or machines that fabricate structures and spatial formations for architecture. Designed by master students from the Architectural Association (AA) in London and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Cataloni
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Can We Use Biomimicry To Design Cities? Janine Benyus Says Yes
Yesterday in a sunny corner of London, a select group of UK journalists, myself included, were treated to an enrapturing few hours in the company of biomimicry guru Janine
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Butterfly Biomimicry Can Curb Counterfeiting of Banknotes
The iridescence of butterfly wings have been the source of inspiration for more energy efficient yet vivid displays, but their shine is proving useful for brightening up not just our gadgets, but the money we buy them
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Top 5 Areas Where Nature-Inspired Innovation Works
Biomimicry is a relatively new discipline in science and technology in which researchers look at the systems
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Great White Idea: More Efficient Windmills, Airplanes and Ships With Shark Skin
We're gonna need a bigger wind turbine. Or maybe not. German researchers are using shark skin to make windmills spin more efficiently, and generate more electricity. Not real shark skin, thankfully. This is
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Robot Butterfly Means Breakthroughs for Biomimicry in Aviation (Video)
While butterfly populations worldwide struggle to stay afloat as the global temperature rises and changes their migration patterns and food sources, scientists have been hard at work coming up with their replacement - the
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Slime Mold Shows Smartest Way to Get from New York to California (Video)
Back in January, we showed you a project that highlighted the intelligence of mold - er, it's efficiency at finding food, at least. This efficiency was used in an experiment to figure out the best routes for transportation in Tokyo.
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Fish-Inspired Wind Farms Are 10x More Powerful
Marine life has proved itself a rich source of inspiration for renewable energy innovation. Sharks and kelp have sparked ideas for harnessing wave and tidal power, and humpback whales have bumpy fins
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Researchers Create Artificial Spider Silk Spinner
Scientists have been investigating how to mimic spider silk for years. The seemingly delicate threads actually have a tensile strength five times greater than steel, and the possibilities for using a similar material in
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Researchers Decode Bat Sonar to Improve Everything from Buildings to Robots
Bats have an incredible ability to navigate using echolocation, weaving their way around obstacles and finding prey based on the bouncing around of the sounds they emit. Engineers and biologists from the
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Biomimicry: Chemical-Free Water-Blocking Material Inspired By Spider Hair
Looking veeeery closely at spider hairs, scientists at the University of Florida have figured a
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An iPhone App about Biomimetic Architecture: BioDesign #3 by Dennis Dollens
This seems to be the year for green iPhone apps, with already over 100 to choose from, including TreeHugger's own which was launched last month and the Green Map app launched recently. Now here is one for the biomimicry and architecture fans amongst
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Awesome Biomimicry: Leaf Veins Inspire New Model for Water and Electricity Distribution Networks
A team of biophysicists at Rockefeller University recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters about a new way to design distribution networks based on the veins that carry water and nutrients in
