What is bioinspiration

When bioinspiration is considered, three major areas of inquiry can be distinguished. These areas include 

All three areas of bioinspiration are discussed in Sections 10.4 through 10.6. 

All inventive engineers practice appreciative intelligence, and the majority of them are naturally enthusiastic about the future and coming inventions. However, in the case of bioinspiration, this unconstrained enthusiasm should be combined with an understanding of the limitations of biology, their new heuristic tool. All tools have their limitations, and we obviously need to know them to avoid frustration and costly mistakes. 

Size matters. Engineered systems are relatively large, while natural systems (animals) are relatively small. When we compare a modern nuclear submarine (Fish 2009) with a whale, both systems possess a fusiform shape to reduce drag and energy expenditure. Both also operate in the same environment, that is, underwater, and they are subjected to the same forces of nature. The blue whale is a huge animal, growing up to 33 meters in length, but it is still tiny when compared with a modern submarine, which may be 

Attribute number Attribute Natural systems Engineered systems 

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