IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Biomimetics, new paradigms for (space) robot design"

Abstract

The success of biological organisms in solving problems encountered in their environments is attributed to the process of natural selection, whose primary metric is survival. Such biological solutions offer insights into alternative strategies for designing engineering robotic systems. Looking at nature, engineers can find a huge database of biologically-inspired solutions to problems. There is thus much that engineers can learn from biology and emulate in their design of engineering systems