« Apprenez de la nature et vous y trouverez votre avenir » : comme Léonard de Vinci, créateur d’un engin volant reproduisant le vol des oiseaux, nombre de scientifiques et d’ingénieurs continuent de s’inspirer de la nature pour alimenter les innovations technologiques. L’année 2023 a été un bon cru en la matière.
PlusL’effondrement de la biodiversité n’est pas une catastrophe pour le monde animal seulement. Elle nous concerne aussi, de manière directe. Car, menacés par la crise climatique et les activités humaines, animaux et plantes sont plus que jamais utiles et précieux pour l’humanité et continuent d’inspirer des découvertes scientifiques, parfois de
PlusLa hantise des agriculteurs comme de tout jardinier est de voir leurs cultures soigneusement entretenues ravagées par des hordes d’insectes affamés. Le moyen utilisé abondamment pour résoudre ce problème a longtemps été l’usage d’insecticides, nocifs pour l’environnement comme pour la santé humaine. Pour les remplacer, certains utilisent d’autres insectes pour
PlusBiomim'expo, the major annual gathering of actors and stakeholders in biomimicry and innovations inspired by life, returns for a 4th edition, on 11 September 2019 at the Paris City Hall, and on 22 October at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie. The event has become the
PlusCamouflage does not mean invisibility and yet this is what soldiers have always aspired to in order to better surprise their enemies... Taking their inspiration from the famous camouflaged animal, the chameleon, Nexter's weapons industry researchers are developing a highly technical skin capable of reproducing the colours and
PlusResearch inspired by 3.8 billion years of living R&D Biomimicry is a fast-growing approach, at the heart of the breakthrough innovation strategies of research centres, large companies and start-ups, on many subjects, including the energy transition. The approach makes it possible, in particular, to break out of the
PlusMorphine and codeine painkillers, taxol (anticancer), artemisinin (antimalarial) or aspirin... All these drugs have the particularity of having been discovered in plants or being derived from them. In fact, even today, as for millennia, the environment still provides us with most of the compounds that enable us to treat ourselves. To identify
PlusBiological tissues have complex mechanical properties that are difficult to reproduce with synthetic materials. An international team has succeeded in producing a biocompatible synthetic material that behaves like biological tissues and changes colour as it deforms, like the skin of chameleons. They promise materials
PlusA breakthrough innovation mimics the human eye and brain to access a huge image processing capacity that will allow machines to see what was previously invisible to them. Startup Prophesee is developing innovative bio-inspired vision technologies, combining deep expertise in artificial intelligence and
PlusHere is an alternative to fossil resources that can respond to several environmental challenges, notably the greenhouse effect, in the field of insulating panels in buildings: a bio-glue made from shrimp carcasses. Researchers from Clermont are behind the formulation of this chitosan-based glue,
PlusWhile the floods currently affecting parts of the country are disrupting the landscape and causing damage amounting to hundreds of millions of euros, the need for dykes is felt more than ever. A Lyon-based company is experimenting with a revolutionary process based on biomimicry: using bacteria to create a new type of dyke.
PlusThere is a tendency to oppose the artificial and technological world of algorithms to the natural and biological world of life. And yet, nowadays, algorithms have become indispensable for studying the complexity of living things. Hence the growing importance of computer tools, exacerbated by the proliferation of data: witness, sequencing
PlusInspire nature rather than enslave it. Doesn't that make more sense? Since antiquity man has observed nature for inspiration. During the Renaissance, the great Leonardo encouraged his contemporaries to take lessons from nature because that is where our future lies. Today, with our language
PlusUrban agriculture, bio-inspired habitat, eco-neighbourhoods ... how biomimicry can be used in current architectural projects; the bioluminescence of marine animals as a new source of light; how to reconcile industry with ecology and society, can our economic models repair what they have destroyed; what is the "blob"?
PlusWe have been looking forward to it since its first edition in 2016, the biomimicry exhibition opens on June 29th and 30th 2017 on the CEEBIOS campus in Senlis. It is the meeting place for all those who are looking to innovate by listening to the environment in order to respect it more,
PlusHere we are! The BioRESP Forum opens its first edition this Thursday, June 1st. A high point for this new framework and dialogue tool that aims to collectively anticipate the reconfigurations of society and value chains that the bio-economy will bring about. All stakeholders, consumers in
PlusAfter biomimicry, here comes geomimicry! It is a process that takes its inspiration from the mineral to create new materials. Although similar in structure to their natural counterparts, these new synthetic minerals have the advantage of controlled chemistry and size. The nanoscale size of these new minerals makes it possible to
PlusResearchers have developed a new type of synthetic creature: a Frankenstein-like mixture of cells from the heart of a rat with a robot inspired by a stingray. And this bug works, navigating by light. The idea was born in the mind of bio-engineer Kit...
PlusThe entire community of biomimicry players, as well as the curious and those who want to discover how the world is changing, met in Senlis on 1 and 2 July, under the auspices of Ceebios, France's leading development centre for this cutting-edge sector. Biomimicry at the forefront
PlusBiomim'expo will take place on July 1st and 2nd. For the first time, the project is launched to gather on the site of Ceebios in Senlis all the actors who are interested, or already working, in bio-inspired approaches. For a great participative and collective meeting around biomimicry, in a hybrid atmosphere between universities and research centres.
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