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From imitation to inspiration
Author(s) -
Hunter Philip
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201743988
Subject(s) - imitation , biomimetics , mimicry , natural (archaeology) , sociology , environmental ethics , engineering ethics , computer science , psychology , history , engineering , ecology , artificial intelligence , biology , philosophy , social psychology , archaeology
For decades, biomimicry was a heralded concept of copying nature's inventions, but it yielded only few results. A recent shift towards more systematic ways to trawl nature's inventions and to understand their function before mimicking them could lead to new innovations.