Bio-Inspiration: Nature as Muse - KQED QUEST

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 design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving milli-robots modeled on the way cockroaches run and adhesives based on the amazing design of a geckos foot. QUEST visits their labs to find out what's so special about these crawling and scaling animals.

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Science & Technology

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• kqed
• pbs
• robots
• biomimicry
• nature
• science
• gecko
• nanotechnology
• ai
• engineering

[pilakut]

EXTREMELY LIKE THIS CONTENT!

[ulyone]

out of mind, out of sight. the answers to our questions have always been there, we just had not acknowledged them.

[DjayJohn]

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[Byron10301]

Thank you for uploading this. I just read in my biochemistry book about Geckos and this is exactly what I wanted to find about their climbing skills and their use of Van der Waals forces.

[ZIrani1]

Just respect the natural world.. and don't steal the ideas without following life's principles are your not doing anythin Novel.. your just stealing.

[shairaptor]

great, now I have a gekko foot fetish :D

[kikkin55]

i want a bat machine u can fly n go into ...

[Qorlaq]

We'll be seeing more and more advancement from this type of research. It's amazing what you can glean from nature when you look at it from an engineering and design perspective. They may not want to acknowledge the engineer, but they are sure happy to piggy-back off His work.

[TheTruthCommonSense]

love this

[myky992]

they were not accidentally built, evolution never says something like that. the casual factor acts only at the rate of the single animal. let's think about two bunnies, two brothers. one of them can survive with less water: he has concentrated his poo and pee, and he even has larger ears, that help him cool up disperding heat. suppose they live in a hot desert. who do you think will have most chanche of survive and give his descendeants larger ears and concentrated rests?