For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to...
Premiered at the Nanofest Film Festival 2008 at the Molecular Foundry. Peptoids are a biomimetic polymer system that are synthesized by robots, and have the...
In 2008, HOK and the Biomimicry Guild formed an alliance to integrate nature's innovations in the design of buildings, communities and cities worldwide. This relationship...
A class of Master's students at EPFL ( www.epfl.ch ) developed bio-inspired artificial intelligence for the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot ( http ) that outperformed...
A tracked robot learns some of the basics of its environment by exploring. It software "brain" is BECCA, a brain-emulating cognition and control architecture. BECCA...
Launch of the Bio Inspired Ice Vehicle, at Imperial College London. The Ice Vehicle will travel 3600 miles across Antarctica later this year with adventurers...
www.ted.com A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary a bus, a...
