Nature Solved It First
The Hidden Engineering Secrets of the Natural World
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, pterodactyls 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, pterodactyls and dinosaurs and discusses how we can determine how these extinct animals moved by looking at animals that are around today.
