We humans have come up with a lot of cool stuff. But it doesn’t usually just come out of the blue. For millennia, we’ve been inspired by the natural world to invent, engineer, and improve. This area of engineering is known as biomimicry or biomimetics — quite literally, “copying life.” In this post, I’ll highlight some of my favorite examples of engineering and design inspired by the natural world.
The Future of the Wild Focus Project
Hi everyone. While I was writing last week’s post about the evolution and physics of bird flight, I came across a really interesting article about a team of engineers modeling a new plane off of albatrosses and their long distance flight abilities. This pulled me into the world of bioengineering. That post, however, is going to have to wait. You see, life, uh… gets in the way. …