Biomimicry is an
innovation inspired by nature, it describes a new science that studies nature's
best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to provide innovative
and sustainable solutions for Industry, research and development.
The goal is to
create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are
well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul.
The core idea is
that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with.
Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. After billions of
years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us
is the secret to survival.
Biomimicry can be found in various applications
such as:
1- Bullet Trains
The Engineer who
designed the bullet train is Eiji Nakatsu, he loved bird
watching, one day he was thinking how he can replace the old trains
with new one that could be the future of transport.
Now the
application of Biomimicry came into play, he designed a train
which was inspired by Kingfishers Beak, because of its air
piercing nose cone design which eventually reduced the air
resistance.
2-
Hydrophobic paints:
This idea was
developed from Lotus leaf, where the
leaf has Hydrophobic property, i.e Non-absorbent of water.