TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen, Robert (Editor)
TI  - Bulletproof feathers: how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology
SN  - 9780226014708 (hb.)
U1  - 570.15195 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chicago	 			
PB  - University Of Chicago Press
KW  - Robotics	
KW  - Biomimetics
N2  - "Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction, in fact such inventions represent only the most recent iterations of natural mechanisms that are billions of years old - the focus of the rapidly growing field of biomimetics. Based on the realization that natural selection has for countless eons been conducting trial-and-error experiments with the laws of physics, chemistry, material science, and engineering, biomimetics takes nature as its laboratory, looking to the most successful developments and strategies of an array of plants and animals as a source of technological innovation and ideas. Thus the lotus flower, with its waxy, water-resistant surface, gives us stainproofing; the feathers of raptors become transformable airplane wings; and the nerve-deadening serrations on a mosquito's proboscis are adapted to hypodermics."--Publisher description
ER  -