Bio-inspired life-like motile materials systems: Changing the boundaries between living and technical systems in the Anthropocene

T Speck, S Poppinga, O Speck… - The Anthropocene …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
A current trend observed in the Anthropocene is the search for bioinspired solutions. Since it
became possible to change the quality of the boundary between living and technical …

[PDF][PDF] Bio-inspired materials: Contribution of biology to energy efficiency of buildings

M Imani, M Donn, Z Balador - Handbook of ecomaterials, 2018 - researchgate.net
This chapter systematically analyzes the existing literature on bio-inspired materials used in
architecture, construction, and building design. Imitating nature accounts for an effective …

Performa of SCARA based intelligent 3 axis robotic soft gripper for enhanced material handling

VP Dinakaran, MP Balasubramaniyan… - … in Engineering Software, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robotic gripper is a model and intensively investigated area of soft robotics which is
frequently motivated by nature. Human anatomical fingers are used as grippers in the …

Learning from plant movements triggered by bulliform cells: the biomimetic cellular actuator

A Mader, M Langer, J Knippers… - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Within the framework of a biomimetic top-down approach, our study started with the
technical question of the development of a hinge-free and compliant actuator inspired by …

[图书][B] Biomimetics for architecture: learning from nature

J Knippers, U Schmid, T Speck - 2019 - books.google.com
Die Natur war schon immer eine Inspirationsquelle für die Gestaltung menschlicher Umwelt.
Die Analyse biologischer Konstruktionen kann nicht nur zu verblüffenden technischen …

Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps

B Eggs, S Fischer, M Csader, I Mikó, A Rack, O Betz - Frontiers in Zoology, 2023 - Springer
Various chalcidoid wasps can actively steer their terebra (= ovipositor shaft) in diverse
directions, despite the lack of terebral intrinsic musculature. To investigate the mechanisms …

[图书][B] Bionisch bauen: Von der Natur lernen

J Knippers, U Schmid, T Speck - 2019 - books.google.com
Die Natur war schon immer eine Inspirationsquelle für die Gestaltung menschlicher Umwelt.
Die Analyse biologischer Konstruktionen kann nicht nur zu verblüffenden technischen …

Structure and function of the stylets of hematophagous Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), with special reference to Dipetalogaster maxima

T Tull, F Henn, O Betz, B Eggs - Arthropod structure & development, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) are able to bend their rod-like
maxillae while searching for blood vessels in the tissue of their vertebrate hosts. Little is …

[HTML][HTML] A NanoFE simulation-based surrogate machine learning model to predict mechanical functionality of protein networks from live confocal imaging

P Asgharzadeh, AI Birkhold, Z Trivedi… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sub-cellular mechanics plays a crucial role in a variety of biological functions and
dysfunctions. Due to the strong structure-function relationship in cytoskeletal protein …

A thermo-bio-architectural framework (ThBA) for finding inspiration in nature: Biomimetic energy efficient building design

M Imani - 2020 - openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz
Design inspired by nature has been known as biomimicry or biomimetic design that is
believed to transform human technologies into a sustainable status through translation of …