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Biomimicry

Biomimicry. Innovation inspired by nature. Insect inspired robots. These tiny robots are currently being used by the US military as spies. Gecko robot. Technical Problem: how to right itself when it tips over Natures Answer: Geckos use their tail. Lichen most efficent miner.

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Biomimicry

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  1. Biomimicry Innovation inspired by nature

  2. Insect inspired robots These tiny robots are currently being used by the US military as spies.

  3. Gecko robot Technical Problem: how to right itself when it tips over Natures Answer: Geckos use their tail.

  4. Lichenmost efficent miner Lichens are great miners, capable of extracting specific inorganic molecules like magnesium from rocks and trees

  5. Fishing works This submarine moves by moving the flexible tail from side to side. It can dive much deeper than any manned sub.

  6. Smart Bird Torsion drive lets the robot fly by moving its wings up and down. The robot is built from carbon fiber composites and polyurethane foam. It weighs 485 grams and requires 23 watts of power to work

  7. Snake Robot Called “Modsnakes” These robots are designed to slip through narrow spaces, crawl through tubes, swim, climb trees as well. These mechanical snakes can be used to control tight spaces, disarmament lethal ammunition and locate survivors in the disaster zone.

  8. Fire fighting Beetle Designed by German scientists, beetle lookalike to help quench forest fires in the future. It moves at a speed of 19.12 km / h, which is much faster than a live beetle and is able to withstand extreme temperatures

  9. Search and rescue Caterpillar It is one of the fastest self-propelled wheeling behaviors in nature. Soft robots like this one could be used for faster search and recovery efforts after disasters, like the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan.

  10. Hazardous Spider Enviably agile and purposeful, the mobile robot makes its way through grounds rendered off-limits to humans as the result of a chemical accident. Depressions, ruts and other obstacles are no match for this eight-legged high-tech journeyman. Its mission: with a camera and measurement equipment on board, it will provide emergency responders with an image of the situation on the ground, along with any data about poisonous substances.

  11. Gecko feet Researchers, from Simon Fraser University, have developed a tank-like robot that has the ability to scale smooth walls, opening up a series of applications ranging from inspecting pipes, buildings, aircraft and nuclear power plants to deployment in search and rescue operations.

  12. Slippery Pitcher Plant • After a rain, the cupped leaf of a pitcher plant becomes a virtually frictionless surface. Sweet-smelling and elegant, the carnivore attracts ants, spiders, and even little frogs. One by one, they slide to their doom. • The researchers anticipate the technology could be used for: • fuel and water-transport pipes • medical tubing • self-cleaning windows • surfaces that resist bacteria • ship hulls • ice-resistant materials • graffiti resistant walls

  13. Whale fins Tubercledturbine blades bumped up the efficiency by 20 percent. That is, the same amount of wind produced 20 percent more electricity on a windmill with tubercles than without.

  14. Instant color change Imagine being able to change the color of the wall in your house with a switch . . . Like a butterfly. The Morpho butterfly wing surface, however, is anything but uniform. It is made of tiny scales, which, in turn have ridges, which have sloping shelves

  15. Bee Hive buildings Covered in foliage, this honeycomb tower is part vertical farm and part residential building combined to create a mini eco system.

  16. Models of the Human Body

  17. Artificial Knee

  18. Artificial hand

  19. Pacemaker

  20. Cloning Dolly - February 1997 The cloning of higher animals is generally more difficult. One approach is to remove the nucleus of one cell by means of very delicate instruments and then to insert that nucleus into a second cell. Another method is to divide embryo tissues and insert them into surrogate mothers, where they then develop normally.

  21. Potential Uses of Stem Cells

  22. Kidney Dialysis Machine Blood from the patient runs through tubes made of a semi-porous membrane. Red and white blood cells and other important blood components are too large to fit through the pores in the membranes, but urea and salt flow through membranes into the sterile solution and are removed.

  23. Hip joint replacement

  24. Artificial Skin The bioprinter has a built-in laser scanner that scans the wound and determines its depth and area. The scan is converted into three-dimensional digital images that enable the device to calculate how many layers of skin cells need to be printed on the wound to restore it to its original configuration

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