TY - JOUR
T1 - Biomimetics: its practice and theory
AU - Vincent, J F V
AU - Bogatyreva, O A
AU - Bogatyrev, N R
AU - Bowyer, A
AU - Pahl, Anja Karina
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Biomimetics, a name coined by Otto Schmitt in the 1950s for the transfer of ideas and analogues from biology to technology, has produced some significant and successful devices and concepts in the past 50 years, but is still empirical. We show that TRIZ, the Russian system of problem solving, can be adapted to illuminate and manipulate this process of transfer. Analysis using TRIZ shows that there is only 12% similarity between biology and technology in the principles which solutions to problems illustrate, and while technology solves problems largely by manipulating usage of energy, biology uses information and structure, two factors largely ignored by technology.
AB - Biomimetics, a name coined by Otto Schmitt in the 1950s for the transfer of ideas and analogues from biology to technology, has produced some significant and successful devices and concepts in the past 50 years, but is still empirical. We show that TRIZ, the Russian system of problem solving, can be adapted to illuminate and manipulate this process of transfer. Analysis using TRIZ shows that there is only 12% similarity between biology and technology in the principles which solutions to problems illustrate, and while technology solves problems largely by manipulating usage of energy, biology uses information and structure, two factors largely ignored by technology.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2006.0127
U2 - 10.1098/rsif.2006.0127
DO - 10.1098/rsif.2006.0127
M3 - Article
SN - 1742-5689
VL - 3
SP - 471
EP - 482
JO - Journal of The Royal Society Interface
JF - Journal of The Royal Society Interface
IS - 9
ER -