These incredible technologies… copied from nature
251We often think that innovation comes from us. But for billions of years, nature has been testing, adapting, and perfecting.
In this video, we discover biomimicry: an approach that involves drawing inspiration from living things to imagine technical, sustainable, and sometimes revolutionary solutions. Trains inspired by birds, materials that mimic butterfly wings, and even a blob that optimizes better than our engineers...
⏰ Summary
00:00 Humans versus the living
01:14 Definition of biomimicry
03:12 How Velcro was invented thanks to burdock
03:51 A termite mound that inspires natural air conditioning
04:33 The color of the Morpho butterfly without pigment
05:45 The gecko: the adhesion expert
06:23 The desert beetle captures water from the air
07:12 The Blob: a brain without neurons that optimizes networks
08:25 What living things can teach us
📝 The article here ►https://www.numerama.com/sciences/2058261-copier-la-nature-pour-revolutionner-le-monde-cest-quoi-le-biomimetisme.html.
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Produced by: Naël Fontaine