From water-skipping robots to elephant-skin inspired cooling materials, engineers have continued to find inspiration in nature in order to move technology forward for humans. While biomimicry has been ...

Most robots have a problem, which is that they’re hard. The last few years have seen major advances in soft robotics, but the challenge to create a soft-bodied robot that can both locomote and ...

Biomimicry, the practice of learning from and mimicking nature to solve human design challenges, became a recognized science in the late 20th century, but studying and imitating the natural world has ...