I found an amazing smart bird robot. It completely and successfully mimic the way birds fly.

I found a sandy robot inspired by spiders and crabs in IEEE. Their ideas are practical and very likely to be applied in future.

This article talks about some really interesting possible bio-inspired sensors on future robots. They're very likely to achieve according to the current technical development.

It's a pretty long article but very worth reading. It talks about several ideas about ideas of new smart fabrics. Some of the ideas are from the biomaterials we talked in class like silk and soft composites. I especially like the innovation of self-dealing fabrics which is inspired by skins and the one inspired by chameleon skin and fish scale. It's cool when you see some ideas you never thought about. Enjoy.

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This article talks about a study of the special feature of flying snakes, which has perfect active movement. This study will help us to understand how snake move smoothly or even fly. They finally came up with an idea of snake-like military aircraft, which I think is very creative and jump out of the box of the classic design of aircraft.

I find something more about solar energy. Scientists begin to search better way to use solar energy on much smaller things like bacteria. I'm thinking, mostly, we would like to focus on animals, plants or other species are "big" enough to observe. Actually, there are even more things we can learn from those tiny things.