Special: Bionics

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Elke Krone

Learning about procedures found in nature is the guiding principle of bionics – and a concept that is asserting itself more and more in many areas of research, but has already been known since Leonardo da Vinci.

The systems nature has developed over millions of years are to be abstracted and adapted for human beings in such a way to where they make meaningful and effective technology possible.

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Many inventions and achievements can be attributed to a very special human trait: inspiration. Thanks to it, poems are being created – or groundbreaking inventions like the Velcro ™fastener, which actually owes its name to burdock seeds.
- Copied from Nature: A Stinger of a Bee and a Elephant's Trunk serve as Inspiration

The skin is more than a protection shield against germs and more than just the packaging of the body. It is elastic, washable, temperature-sensitive, regulative and self-regenerating – and usually in a very short amount of time. Measuring about 2 square meters in size and weighing approximately 10 to 12 kilograms, it is the largest and heaviest organ of the human body.
- Nature as the Inspiration: Development of Artificial Skin

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