Published on August 14th, 2014 | by thezooooo

Bio-inspiration: nature as muse.

For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving milli-robots modeled on the way cockroaches run and adhesives based on the amazing design of a geckos foot. QUEST visits their labs to find out what’s so special about these crawling and scaling animals.

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