External Resources
Data/Tools/Resources
- Bio-inspired Design Resources
- First-of-its-kind global catalog of bird shapes yields ecological “gold mine”
- Shark-skin-inspired film immediately drops airliner fuel consumption
Computing
Education
Materials and Structures
- 5 Fiber-Like Tools That Can Now Be 3D-Printed!
- A “gecko gripper” could clean up the millions of pieces of space junk floating in space.
- BREEZE- Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration
- DoD-Funded Researchers Use Moths and Origami Structures for Innovative Defense Research
- Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity
- Slugging it out: Scientists find material that mimics the intelligence of sea slugs
- Venomous bloodworms grow deadly copper fangs with a totally metal trick
- Ammonite Bounty
- Plant-inspired TransfOrigami microfluidics
- Computational method to create synthetic 3D spider web structures
- Mimicking Termites to Generate New Materials
Power
- 1,000-Cycle Lithium-Sulfur Battery Could Quintuple EV Ranges | Electric Vehicles Research
- A new path to nuclear fusion? A novel pistol shrimp-inspired system succeeded
Propulsion
- Air Force Is Developing Bird-Like Microdrones with Flapping Wings
- Bionic Swift is a Robot Bird for General Technical Education
- BREEZE- Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration
- Tiny Flier ‘Swims’ through the Air at Superspeed
- Plant-inspired TransfOrigami microfluidics
- Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight
- New work explains “one of nature’s most exquisite biological micro-machines”
- This is the demonstration video for the paper titled “Tombo propeller: Bioinspired Deformable Structure toward Collision-Accommodated Control for Drones” published by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2022)
- Mimicking Termites to Generate New Materials
- Computational method to create synthetic 3D spider web structures
Systems
- A “gecko gripper” could clean up the millions of pieces of space junk floating in space.
- BREEZE- Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration
- INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group (NSWG)
- Elemental Robotics and Inspirations from Nature
- New Golden Era of Vehicle Design
- Plant-inspired TransfOrigami microfluidics