Through most of the industrial age, we have been getting by on our own wits and inventions for new product designs. But now few savvy manufacturers are beginning look back at nature's laboratory to ...

From snowflakes to leaves, nature is full of incredible shapes and intricate designs. Nature itself is a wonder, a world full of plants and animals that adapt themselves to better suit the natural ...

Nature and technology often seem to be at odds, but there are times when one can actually aid, inform, and improve the other. Even the most futuristic tech can benefit from taking a close look at the ...

Deadline to submit is March 17! We’ve picked three teams from leading design firms who will be working with biologists. Now all we need is your company’s real-world design problem. A COMPETITIVE ...

A case study, "Biomimicry: Streamlining the Front End of Innovation for Environmentally Sustainable Products," shows that biomimicry, a relatively new field that seeks to emulate nature to find ...

BENGALURU: What if you could find solutions to world problems such as pollution, biodiversity depletion, poverty, unemployment by looking at nature? What if you could design better phones, clothes, ...

Forget human ingenuity - the best source of ideas for cutting-edge technology might be in nature, according to experts in 'biomimicry' Robot in disguise: the gecko's climbing ability has been copied ...

Among the inspirations shared is Nucleário, a product created by the Brazilian startup of the same name to make forest restoration processes more efficient. The project was the first Brazilian ...

Our biomimicry challenge What Would You Ask Nature? drew dozens of real-world business problems submitted by companies from all over the world. We assigned three challenges to three firms and paired ...

About a decade ago, researchers at CNRS were already discussing a robot modeled after a rat. The idea was to use such a machine as ...