'Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example. I think of it as “innovation inspired by nature.”'' Janine Benyus

• Rodney Brooks has designed + built several robots based on observations of insects (eg http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/boadicea/)
• Stanford university, Biomimetic robotics → http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/
• Amorphous computing http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/amorphous/
• Fabrics of Life http://www.epigenome.eu/en/3,56,0

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8Yw19bn7Q&NR=1
• also Swimming Robots

• “PPSN - Parallel Problem Solving from Nature” conferences http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/PPSN/
• http://www.tumbletruss.com/
• gecko feet stickers

• http://www.biomimicry.org
• http://www.bfi.org/Trimtab/spring01/biomimicry.htm
• biomimicry FAQ http://www.biomimicry.org/faq.html
• Viridian Design
• biomorphic rebotics links http://www.iguana-robotics.com/RobotUniverse/
• sLowlife exhibition: http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu:16080/usbg/
• “Ideas Stolen Right From Nature” > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65642,00.html
• biomimicry 101 > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//004639.html
• bionics at Baden-Wuertenberg: http://www.bio-pro.de/en/region/freiburg/magazin/03899/index.html

Janine Benyus

• “Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77BfxnVlyc
• http://www.bigpicture.tv/speakers/d5d219c50

Biomimicry Explained

“Janine Benyus describes how biomimicry works, pointing to its origins in early human history. She explains how and why western industrial nations are only now rediscovering the profound implications that biomimicry has for the future of design. She then highlights examples that illustrate how biomimicry has led to the creation of world famous buildings and other innovations.” [4:17]

http://www.bigpicture.tv/videos/watch/45fbc6d3e

Biomimetic Design, 3parts ~5mins each

• http://www.bigpicture.tv/videos/watch/63dc7ed10
• http://www.bigpicture.tv/videos/watch/e96ed478d
• http://www.bigpicture.tv/videos/watch/c0e190d82

Robots inspired by animals

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8Yw19bn7Q
• http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=1054897515755940827

Plant time lapses

• http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=129630895447962661
• http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=129630895447962661
• slime mould - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GScyw3ammmk
• http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html

Hylozoic kinetic sculpture

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p-NNDfoxUc

weaver bird

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkblQKkxggw
• Work inspired by… http://recuerdas.blogspot.com/2006/03/nesting-video-installation.html

bird singing: Dawn Chorus by Marcus Coates

• http://arts.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,1997689,00.html

Spider silk

• http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/dossiers/16463881/hoofdstuk/16077739/

“Nastic movements are plant movements that occur in response to environmental stimuli but unlike tropic movements, the direction of the response is not dependent on the direction of the stimulus. Some of the most spectacular plant movements are nastic movements. These include the closing of the carnivorous Venus Flytrap leaf when it captures prey or the folding of the mimosa leaf when it is disturbed.” http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/movements/nastic/nastic.html

• http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/844
• http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/movements/nastic/nastic.html

Evolutionary Robotics, Artificial Life, Project GroWorld, viridian green