News Headline

Interdisciplinarity: Bring biologists into biomimetics

Source
Nature

Publication Date
2016-01-19

In the late 1940s, Swiss engineer George de Mestral was inspired to invent Velcro after picking burrs from the fur of his dog. Five decades later, Japanese engineer Eiji Nakatsu, who had a passion for bird watching, designed a high-speed train with an aerodynamic front shaped like a kingfisher's beak.

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http://www.nature.com/news/interdisciplinarity-bring-biologists-into-biomimetics-1.19188