'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/

• “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

related nodes

• EvolutionaryRobotics, ArtificialLife, ProjectGroWorld

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