GhostSwimmer: Underwater Navy Drone Looks Just Like a Shark If this shark swam up beside you in the sea, flipping its tail back and forth as it sliced through…
Nature’s Wisdom: 9 Brilliant Examples of Biomimicry in Design Mother nature has perfected the biomechanics of everything from tiny leaf cells to whale fins over millennia, adapting their functions…
Climb Like a Gecko: Biomimicry Enables Extremely Sticky Adhesive The biomechanics of a gecko’s toes have made it possible for researchers to create an incredibly sticky adhesive that’s strong…
Robot Flash Mob Mimics Swarms and Cells in Nature The world’s first self-assembling robot flash mob took place at Harvard University, with 1,024 tiny robots coming together into a…
That’s No Snake! Jaw-Dropping Case of Biomimicry If you saw this little guy in the wild, you'd probably recoil in terror, thinking you're looking at the menacing…
Living At One with Nature: Tree-Shaped Forest Houses Blending in with the forest, these sculptural homes have an incredibly light footprint on the earth and stand above the…
Flower Power: 12 Bloom-Inspired Building Designs We find flowers so beautiful that we make them a part of nearly every celebration, using them as expressions of…
Nearly-Invisible Wind Turbine Inspired by Dragonflies The same mechanism that enables a dragonfly to remain stable in flight is being used to develop new wind turbines…
Shimmering Greenhouse Inspired by Crystal Formations A stunning greenhouse complex shimmers on the hillside in Xi’an, China, with a faceted glass shell inspired by crystal formations.…
Not Science Fiction: 11 Real-Life Robotic Animals Robotic creatures running amok in human society can incite mental images of a dystopian society, where some hummingbirds are actually…