关键词为 “biomimetic” 的文章

Snake Robots

by 孙尉翔 on 2月 18, 2009

A review on snake-inspired robot design was published on the IOP journal, Bioinspirations and Biomimetics, 2009 ,4, 021001. DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/4/2/021001. The introduction paragraphs of the review described several advantages of snake-like robot compared with other types of design, which is quite interesting to read. But I did not go into the detail of the review. There are images of various design of snake robots in this paper. And this reminds me to search some videos in Youtube.com. It seems that these robots don’t just move like snakes. They also moves like worms, or something not seen in nature.

Man-Made but Living Systems – Bio Besides Mimetics and Inspirations

by 孙尉翔 on 2月 18, 2009

According to Wikipedia.org which though is not often desirable, the meaning of the word biomimetics does not include the direct utilization of the functional part of living structures. We have found lotus leaves superhydrophobic. But biomimetically we didn’t directly grow lotus crops for water-repelling coatings, nor did we try to culture similar layer from lotus tissue. Rather, we got ‘inspired’ and started ‘mimicking’ the structure by purely artificial technologies we are familiar with. Similar situation is in computer science—obviously we didn’t try to clone some people exclusively for intellectual production, leaving us a comfortable yet improving future without necessity to think over anything complex. Rather, we turn to silicon-based computers and only wish these computers can become smarter by mimicking the logical structure of brain—what the cyberneticists are doing.