Mexican jumping beans, which are actually hollow seeds containing moth larva, seem to bounce and roll around in a totally random manner as the larva move around inside, but researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that it's not random at all, and their behavior is now being used to program robots to roll in a controlled way.
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Mexican Jumping Bean Inspired Sensors
Friday, June 22nd, 20123M’s Shark Skin Inspired Film To Help Wind Turbines
Sunday, November 6th, 2011Earlier this year, scientists offered a novel approach to boost the output of electric wind turbines: Coat the blades with a ribbed film that mimics shark skin. View More...
Catepillar Inspired Robot
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Rolling locomotion using an external force such as gravity has evolved many times. However, some caterpillars can curl into a wheel and generate their own rolling momentum as part of an escape repertoire. View More...
Sycamore Inspired Wind Turbines
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The giant sycamore of the seas: British engineers design 900ft offshore wind turbine which mimics tree's seeds. A giant wind turbine design that mimics the spiralling motion of a sycamore seed could revolutionise the wind power industry.
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Beetle Inspired Video Cameras
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Video cameras on your cellphone could soon be good enough to record a jazz concert, a nighttime street scene, or a candlelit dinner. A Swedish start-up has created an algorithm, inspired by dung beetles, that can be integrated into camera modules to offer high-quality video in extremely low light situations. View More...
Shark Inspired Coatings
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
University of Florida engineers have developed an environmentally friendly coating for hulls of oceangoing ships based on an unlikely source of inspiration: the shark View More...
Hummingbird inspired Nano-UAV
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
(image source: Aerovironment)
"AeroVironment is designing and building a prototype flapping-wing unmanned aircraft under View More...
Maple Seeds and Animals Exploit the Same Trick to Fly
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
(image source: wikipedia)
The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they can View More...
Plant Inspired Heliotropic Solar Tracker
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Many plants are heliotropic, gradually tilting towards the sun to optimize solar energy capture. Current sun-tracking solar panels involve the use of motors View More...
Tuna Inspired Tidal Power Systems
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
The tidal power conversion system, bioSTREAM™, is based on the highly efficient propulsion of Thunniform mode swimming species, such as shark View More...
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