biomimetics

Hybrid animals can be strange, puzzling (why?), and disconcerting creatures. But biomimetics offers a less frightening combination of nature-inspired qualities that can solve real world problems. A new high-speed amphibious robot inspired…

Aerodynamicists from City, University of London Christoph Bruecker and Sir Richard Oliver and their team have transferred the idea of fish scales to arrays of bio-inspired scales capable of producing a streaky flow that could significantly…