Engineering biomechanics
Animals are amazingly good at what they do, having had millions of years of evolution to fine-tune their abilities. They are experts at almost anything that you can imagine: fast flier, speedy swimmers, and rapid runners. If we let animals compete in the
Talk: Yes | Workshop: Yes | Course: No | Audience: High School, Sixthform, College, Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional
This talk covers some of the amazing abilities that animals display, and looks at these from an engineering perspective. For example, how does your cat jump from such a large height, a bird migrate such vast distances, a cheetah run so incredibly fast, or a gecko stick to any surface? These questions shall be addressed from anatomical, physiological, structural, materials science, and fluid mechanics points of view, in an accessible fashion.
The applications of the things learnt from these animals to engineering, technology, and humanity will be presented. For example, biologically-inspired walking robots, flapping-wing aircraft, gecko-style climbing robots, and new biologically inspired materials
The talk also covers the abilities of some extinct animals: plesiosaurs, pterodacltys and dinosaurs and discusses how we can determine how these extinct animals moved by looking at animals that are around today.
The applications of the things learnt from these animals to engineering, technology, and humanity will be presented. For example, biologically-inspired walking robots, flapping-wing aircraft, gecko-style climbing robots, and new biologically inspired materials
The talk also covers the abilities of some extinct animals: plesiosaurs, pterodacltys and dinosaurs and discusses how we can determine how these extinct animals moved by looking at animals that are around today.
