Curated Video
Brainstorm Design 2024: Biomimicry in Architecture and Engineering
Jamie Miller, Director of Biomimicry, SJ Group, In conversation with Nicholas Gordon, Fortune
Bite Sci-zed
Biomimicry
Nature often offers the best inspiration. Scholars learn about biomimicry and how humans often copy nature to create new products. They explore real-world examples such as including solar panels that mimic leaves, the texture of shark...
Nature League
Nature + Engineering
Viewers observe many nature-inspired examples in technology, household items, and health care with the final video in a five-part series on Evolution and Speciation. The video focuses on human engineers inspired by earth's wonders.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Robofly
Featuring slow-motion footage of insects in flight, this video adapted from NOVA explores the engineering challenge of designing a robotic aerial vehicle that flies like a bug.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Design Inspired by Nature
In this stills collage produced for Teachers' Domain, see several examples of everyday inventions that were either inspired by nature or are similar in form and function to plants or animals.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Green Revolution: Solar
At Arizona State University, students make and test new materials that can be used to build better and more versatile photovoltaic solar cells, and test solar cells to see how the shape of the surface affects the cell's energy...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Loop Scoops: Velcro
In this video, students learn how the invention of velcro was inspired by the burrs that got stuck to a dog's fur. Includes background reading and teacher tips. [2:00]
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Bio Inspiration: Gecko Adhesive
Bio-inspiration is when engineers and scientists look to nature for ideas. Locally, researchers at UC Berkeley are developing an uber-adhesive based on a gecko's feet. [3:44]
Other
E Gfi: G8 Robotic Fish
Watch a video of a fish swimming, but this is no ordinary fish, it is actually a robot! [0:44]