Vocabulary
Copying nature in order to solve technical problems
Biomimicking
Which 3 animals inspired the Shinkansen Bullet Train ?
Owl / Adelie Penguin / Kingfisher
To stick
A bird's mouth
A beak
Name 2 companies that used biomimicry (100 bonus points for each additional 2 responses)
Boeing / Colgate / General Electrics / GeneralMills / HermanMiller / HOK / Interface / Kohler / Kraft / Natura / Nike / Nyserda / P&G / Seventh Generation
To shape raw materials into an object
(Starts with the letter "M")
To model
The rig that connects the train to the electric wires
The pantograph
How do engineers usually inspire themselves while designing new technologies ?
They usually get inspired from other existing human technologies.
To descend quickly to catch a prey
To swoop down
Leaf's physical property that makes lotus leaves able to self-clean
A bump
Name the 3 other examples of biomimicry's use given in the video.
Prairie dog burrow inspired an hotel air ventilation system.
Shark skin inspired an antibacterial surface for hospitals.
The swimming of fish inspired drag reducing pattern for wind turbines.
To invent an expression
To coin an expression
A large group of fish
A school of fish
What are the 3 main ways to mimic nature given in the video?
Mimic the shape/form
Mimic the process
Mimic the ecosystem
To reuse a material in order to create another product
To upcycle
The proposition : "A group homomorphism f : G-->H is injective", is equivalent to ?
Ker(f) = {1}