Bio-Inspiration: Nature as Muse

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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.

Tags: kqed, milli-robots, mimickry, pbs, QUEST, UC Berkeley

Additional Links

• Sandbox Innovations
• Autumn Lab - Lewis & Clark College
• CIBER
• Mark Cutkosky's Lab at Stanford University
• Professsor Robert Full's Poly-PEDAL Lab
• Ron Fearing's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab
• Producer's Notes for Bio-inspiration: Nature as Muse

 

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