by The Biomimicry Institute | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog, Meet a Biomimic
In our latest installment of Meet a Biomimic, meet Dan Quinn, a researcher at the University of Virginia who is pioneering new ways of designing underwater and aerial robots by mimicking how fish and birds move. Read on to learn more about Dan’s research and check out this video to see his work in action.
by Biomimicry Institute | Nov 29, 2017 | Cool Biology, Examples of Biomimicry, Uncategorized
By Tom McKeag When Arthur DeVries arrived at McMurdo Station in 1961, he was fresh from Stanford University where he had signed up for a 13-month stint to study the respiratory metabolism of the endemic Notothenioid fishes found in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica....
by Biomimicry Institute | Nov 16, 2017 | Biomimicry and Climate Change, Biomimicry In Design, Cool Biology, Examples of Biomimicry, Uncategorized
By Christophe Haubursin | Vox | 99% Invisible Japan’s Shinkansen don’t look like your typical train. They’re fast — so fast they coined the term “bullet train” — with long, pointed noses that let them reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. But these Japanese...
by The Biomimicry Institute | Oct 21, 2017 | Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, Blog
When the members of Team NexLoop set out to design a water management system for urban food producers, they wanted to make it locally attuned, adaptable, and self-sufficient. With those design specs in mind, they searched for the best examples of how to develop a...
by Biomimicry Institute | Oct 12, 2017 | Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, Blog
A year ago this October, Camila Hernandez and Camila Gratacós stood in front of 2,000 people on the National Bioneers Conference main stage and accepted the first-ever Ray of Hope Prize® for their nature-inspired soil restoration solution called BioPatch. The...
by Biomimicry Institute | Sep 27, 2017 | Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, Blog, Uncategorized
The path from farm to fork is fraught with issues. From how we grow our food, to how it’s packaged and stored, how we choose where and what to eat, to what happens to our food waste, there are a lot of problems to be solved. One thing that we at the Institute...