Bio-Inspired Innovations
Many centuries ago Leonardo da Vinci created hundreds of inventions by watching the way plants and animals work and patterning his creations on their mechanisms and movements. Over the centuries, such inventions and designs became known as biomimicry, biologically inspired designs. Now, in the early 21st century, there is a resurgence in biomimicry, a return to nature for insight and innovation in the belief that, indeed, nothing is more perfect than nature.









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