The title of this article is pretty self-explanatory, although I was really suprised to find all of the basic ideas to be quite interesting and inspirational. The direct method that is ised in this article is very similar to what we discussed in the last "lecture" of class. This is an article that I will definitely be looking back on to help get the "bioinspired juices flowing" for any future ideas that I may have. I wish that I would have found this article earlier because it might have helped me with some of our earlier assignments.

This short article discribes the accomplishements in robotics made by Mirko Kovac, a robotics engineer. It goes into detail about his break-through in the "perching" methods that stemmed from his grasshopper-inspired robots. There is also a brief video clip that essentially describes the "perching" process of his robot. I was really amazed to find that these robots are actually programed to run into whatever object they are looking for without being harmed!

This is a short scholarly article that is definitely worth reading. It expands on the Student Teach Presentation for the Stiff Composites group, specifically the resilin aspects. I was really interested in the resilin's applications in dragonfly wings and its "rubber-like" properties, and this article was perfect for further information on it.

I found this 11 minute video when I was looking up information about biomimicry for our Habitat post. Ironically this video has the same speaker from one of our lectures that we watched from moodle. It goes into detail about the history of where and how biomimicry got started, along with an interview with Robert Full that goes into greater detail of the biomimetic experiments that are being done at UC Berkeley. It was really interesting to learn where biomimicry stems from and that scientist havie been using it for many many years.

This scholarly article discusses the shift in architecture from constructing buildings that "worked with nature" to today's type of buildings that have very little concern for the nature around them. It also addresses the fact that we should try to model our buildings after animals as we once did. Although this article is quite lengthy, it is definitely worth reading. This article really helped me appreciate architecture.