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Biomimicry - Design Inspired on Nature
Biomimicry or biomimetics ist the examination of nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements to emulate or take inspiration from in order to solve human problems. The term biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek words bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate.
And how can does help building machines or enhance the ones that we have already created?
The examples are all around, we just need to look closely and pay attention. Leonardo da Vinci made the sketches from “Flying Machines” based on bird anatomy, Velcro was based on the hook structure from a plant called Bur, swimmers suits that emulate shark skin, air conditioning design enhancement based on termite’s colonies in Africa, echolocation modeling in bats led to a cane for the blind, among various others examples worldwide.
As a conclusion we can say that engineered products and systems can be somehow optimised using new methodologies and techniques that Biomimicry could provide.
Isn´t for some cases thousands of years of evolution the best R&D department?
The videos bellow contains more accurate examples and provides more information about Biomimicry. Enjoy!
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