Biomimetics: Insect - inspired technologies
Keywords:
Biomimetics, biomimicry, insectsAbstract
It has long been recognized and documented that insects are the most diverse group of organisms on earth,including more than a million described species and representing more than half of all known livingorganisms.During the course of evolution, insects have developed several features such as the capability offlight, their small size that allows for survival in various habitats, their ability to store sperm for delayedfertilization, and their general adaptive abilities for the environment. Such versatile structural adaptationsand further study, can enable us to solve many problems in the modern world through the science ofbiomimicry. Principles of insect structures, materials, sensors, actuators, locomotion and control systemscould provide valuable solutions to the scientific community and give inspirations to create biomimeticmodels out of it (Bar-Cohen, 2006). The rich sensory equipment of insects including complex eyes, variouschemoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, etc. taken together with a compact brain, reveals interesting motioncontrolpatterns and remarkable behavioural features.Hence insects formwonderful source of inspiration tofind solutions for a large variety of challenges faced by the mankind. Biomimetics have helped scientists incoping with challenges faced in building light weight building materials, nano technology, equipment inmedical fields, implements for agricultural operations, disaster management operations, packaging industriesand even in paint industries with further vast scope of development of ideas in many sectors useful formankind.References
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