#BioInspiration

Engineering Explained: Bat-inspired robot drones What is biomimicry? Can technology inspired by nature, or biomimetics, solve modern problems? What if humans could use sonar to mimic how bats fly using echolocation and acoustic sensing? What does it...

4 months ago

#Bioinspiration at
#VirginiaTech –
#agtech:
bat-inspired #robot #drones
(video 3:38)
news.vt.edu/videos/k/202...

#highereducation #highered #STEMeducation #STEM #engineering #biomimicry #biomimetics #robotics #agriculture #farming

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Hacker News Companion

@hncompanion.com

5 months ago

Nature offers strong parallels! Commenters linked kirigami designs to spider ballooning and dandelion seeds. These natural phenomena could inspire improved design and performance for future parachutes. #BioInspiration 5/6

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SICB journals

@sicbjournals.bsky.social

5 months ago

*An extra plug for #WorldMantaDay
#Mobula, #bioinspiration, filter feeding, form and function - free
J B Teeple et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Mobulas (manta and devil rays) are large-scale ram filter feeders that separate planktonic food particles from large volumes of water with minimal clogging.

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SICB journals

@sicbjournals.bsky.social

6 months ago

ICB
Mobula, #bioinspiration, filter feeding, form and function
J B Teeple, S R Kahane-Rapport, K E Cohen, L Hamann, J A Strother, E W M Paig-Tran
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
“Mobulas (#manta & devil #rays) are large-scale ram filter feeders…”

#planktonic #science #biology #scientists #womeninstem

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Frilly bug feet inspire a water-striding robot Ripple bugs’ nimble movements on the surface of water inspired a robot with automatically unfurling fans on its feet.

6 months ago

#Bioinspiration
and #robotics:
ripple bugs (Rhagovelia obesa)
www.sciencenews.org/article/ripp...

#robots #bots #design #biomimicry #biomechanics #nature #zoology #entomology

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Could a Plant Help Guide Design of Next-Generation Solar Panels? Tufts researchers find a jewel orchid that captures light very efficiently and creates its own optical network, and make a copy using silk biomaterials, hoping to apply the technology to solar panels

7 months ago

#Design and #biomimicry for
#solarpanels
now.tufts.edu/2024/08/07/c...

#problemsolving #innovation #designers #STEM #engineering #nature #botany #bioinspiration #solarenergy

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Could a Plant Help Guide Design of Next-Generation Solar Panels? Tufts researchers find a jewel orchid that captures light very efficiently and creates its own optical network, and make a copy using silk biomaterials, hoping to apply the technology to solar panels

7 months ago

#Design and #biomimicry for
#solarpanels
now.tufts.edu/2024/08/07/c...

#problemsolving #innovation #designers #STEM #engineering #nature #botany #bioinspiration #solarpanels

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Christophe Bousquet

@krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

The sixth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with a #keynote by Pranav Kedia on #BioMimetic #sailboat #swarms

#BioInspiration

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

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Christophe Bousquet

@krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

The sixth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with a #keynote by Andreagiovanni Reina on #DecisionMaking in #robot #swarms

#BioInspiration

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

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Christophe Bousquet

@krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

The afternoon session of the fifth day the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) is devoted to a #keynote by Liang Li on #robots and #CollectiveBehaviour.

#BioInspiration

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

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Hacker News Companion

@hncompanion.com

8 months ago

Commenters drew parallels to natural systems like the human cochlea, noting how both process sound frequencies. This biological comparison highlights the device's efficiency and design elegance. #BioInspiration 6/6

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Royal Society Publishing

@royalsocietypublishing.org

9 months ago

Inspired by nature, refined by numbers: Formal-functional #bioinspiration and intelligent computation in vehicle design royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #RSOS #Biomimetics #VehicleDesign

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Anurag Agrawal

@anurag-asclepias.bsky.social

9 months ago

An open pine cone amongst pebbles in a rock garden next to it cactus in Ithaca

A closed pine cone in the same Rock garden the next day

This Scots Pine? cone has been opening and closing in my rock garden for over a year... Cool & wet = closed, warm & dry = open... It has opened and closed many times this spring after being out there all of last summer and winter. Can somebody please explain this magic? #bioinspiration

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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️

@filsalustri.bsky.social

10 months ago

Zygote Quarterly | ZQ bio-inspired design

Zygote Quarterly: showing biologically inspired design using case studies, news, and articles which are exemplary in their impact on the field, rigorous in their methodology, and relevant to today’s reader.
#biomimetics #bioinspiration #design #sustainability
zqjournal.org/index.html

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RobotZwrrl

@robotzwrrl.bsky.social

10 months ago

In the foreground is a robotic butterfly creature with yellow wings, intricately cut out to see the background. It's a beautiful fresh and bright spring day, with light streaks and shadows cast over the short and slightly green grass. In the background is an Inunnguaq sculpture, and at the feet are sprouts with golden yellow flowers beginning to emerge. Spring is on the way!

Nice to see signs of spring emerging! The field season is starting soon.

#spring #robotics #bioinspiration

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Académie des sciences

@academiesciences.bsky.social

11 months ago

#ChimieVerte #Écocatalyse #InnovationDurable #AcadémieDesSciences #ScienceEtEnvironnement #Bioinspiration

@cnrs.fr
@Université de Montpellier
@chimeco.bsky.social

Retrouvez l'épisode précédent : youtu.be/hhX3JDdmL4k?...

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SearchEngine

@searchengine.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

11 months ago

Original post on news.mit.edu

Hopping gives this tiny robot a leg up MIT engineers developed an insect-sized jumping robot that...

news.mit.edu/2025/hopping-gives-tiny-...

#Research #Robotics #Drones #Electronics #Bioinspiration #Research #Laboratory #of #Electronics […]

[Original post on news.mit.edu]

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11 months ago

What a superb and inspiring day, discussing highly diverse aspects of #Bioinspiration - A big thank to all the speakers, chairpersons, and the attendance. As well as the people involved in the organization...

Advances in Bioinspirations

@inserm.fr - @cea.fr - @cnrs.fr

#BMSV

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11 months ago

Can we bioengineer photosynthetic bacteria so that they can produce their own electrodes? Ardemis Boghossian, from EPFL, lecturing at Advances in #Bioinspiration. There's Plenty of Room at the Nano/Bio Boundary.
@cea.fr - @cnrs.fr - @inserm.fr
Bases Moléculaires et Structurales du Vivant #BMSV

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11 months ago

What are we? What is evolution? What is selection? What can be assembled without life?
Fascinating Keynote by @leecronin.bsky.social from
@uofglasgow.bsky.social at Advances in #Bioinspiration.
@cnrs.fr - @cea.fr - @inserm.fr
Bases Moléculaires et Structurales du Vivant #BMSV

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11 months ago

Life by mimicking the dynamics of the cytoskeleton ? From cytoskeleton investigation to living architectures, by @manuelthery.bsky.social from @cea.fr Paris at Advances in #Bioinspiration.
@cea.fr - @inserm.fr - @cnrs.fr
Bases Moléculaires et Structurales du Vivant #BMSV

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11 months ago

Hydrophobic interactions can create lipid coacervates mimicking cells - Nicolas Martin from @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social describing Coacervates as minimal models of synthetic cells at Advances in #Bioinspiration ad
@cea.fr @cnrs.fr rs.fr @inserm.fr
Bases Moléculaires et Structurales du Vivant #BMSV

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