Biology and Robotics

Last meeting we talked a little about how biology is being used as a model for building robots. If you think about it, the designs found in nature have been around for millions and billions of years and they are pretty good. In nature, if a design is not working well (often because the environment changes) then that design goes out of production (becomes extinct). What we see in nature today is pretty amazing from a design and technology standpoint. We are only now starting to consider nature's designs as something we should be trying to copy. Check out the videos below to see some good examples of design inspired by nature.




Design inspired by nature