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Technology designed by nature

These exciting innovations and breakthroughs demonstrate what's possible when humans draw inspiration from some of nature’s best work.

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Cheryl Hayashi

The magnificence of spider silk

14 minutes 11 seconds

Regina Dugan

From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

24 minutes 44 seconds

Carl Schoonover

How to look inside the brain

4 minutes 42 seconds

Emma Teeling

The secret of the bat genome

16 minutes 8 seconds

Hadyn Parry

Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

13 minutes 40 seconds

Deborah Gordon

What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet

13 minutes 55 seconds

Robert Full

The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

4 minutes 54 seconds

Jaap de Roode

How butterflies self-medicate

6 minutes 6 seconds

Neri Oxman

Design at the intersection of technology and biology

17 minutes 22 seconds

Vijay Kumar

Robots that fly ... and cooperate

16 minutes 29 seconds