Tag: actuators
Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum
In the video, engineer Destin Sandlin explains how he became captivated after watching an online animation of the bacterial flagellum.
Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance
The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products.
Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology
Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones.
Dandelions, Darwin’s Bark Spider, and More: No Shortage of Biological Wonders
Those of us who find purpose in biology instead of random tinkering will not run out of material to get excited about any time soon.
A Cambrian Explosion…of Robots?
According to Wired, a new epoch has begun, and it is driven by intelligent design.