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bio-inspired

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  • adjective mathematics, sciences, engineering Ideas inspired by mechanisms or laws operating in biological organisms, (e.g. neural networks).

Etymologies

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bio- +‎ inspired, a short for biologically-inspired

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Examples

  • Mr. DICKERSON: Well, our lab is basically interested in bio-inspired design and understanding mechanisms that happen in nature.

    Student Derives Formula For Optimum Dog Drying 2010

  • Mr. DICKERSON: Well, our lab is basically interested in bio-inspired design and understanding mechanisms that happen in nature.

    Student Derives Formula For Optimum Dog Drying 2010

  • Over time the number of bio-inspired ideas mushroomed.

    Nature Is the Model Factory 2010

  • If you begin to look at some of these more general principles, you suddenly have a model for how to run a manufacturing facility, using bio-inspired green chemistry, for example, even how to work in an eco-system or a food web, where the byproduct of your company becomes the "food" or the resource for other companies.

    Green guru: Janine Benyus, biologist and business leader 2010

  • In April Full, 48, and Cutkosky, 49, unveiled their most recent bio-inspired robot, the two-foot long "Stickybot," which strides up a window much like a gecko but at 1.5 inches a second.

    Seven Robots Destined to Change Your Life | Impact Lab 2006

  • We have imagined products, for example, this one: we imagined a bio-inspired Band-Aid, where we took the glue off the Band-Aid.

    Robert Full on animal movement 2005

  • We have imagined products, for example, this one: we imagined a bio-inspired Band-Aid, where we took the glue off the Band-Aid.

    Robert Full on animal movement 2005

  • We have imagined products, for example, this one: we imagined a bio-inspired Band-Aid, where we took the glue off the Band-Aid.

    Robert Full on animal movement 2005

  • "Get them among buildings or give them something to do near the ground - and they're helpless," James Paduano, chief engineer for bio-inspired development projects at Aurora Flight Sciences Research & Development Center, told Danger Room.

    Wired Top Stories Dawn Lim 2011

  • "This could be a really good target for bio-inspired materials," she said.

    Wired Top Stories Lisa Grossman 2011

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