Inventions Inspired by Animals

Inventions Inspired by Animals
Reference:
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’, 2013.
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Animals are inspiring ideas for high tech innovations that could help to reduce the pain of
injections and many more new in medical field, to simulate the enemies in military fight and to
make better protective covering for body for our military men and so more in the defence field
and also in other fields.
For example, the misleading behavior patterns of squirrels inspired ‘Georgia Institute of
Technology’ researchers to design robots that can cheat each other.
Squirrels have a quality to safe their food from other animals. They visit empty caches to make
fool the other animals who are trying to steal their food. The robots also work in a similar way, by
attracting the ‘predator robot’ to wrong locations for delaying discovery of protected resources.
There are some other examples of innovations which are inspired by animals kingdom. These
are given below.
1.Porcupines’ Qills AS needles.

Reference:
Figure 1: Porcupine Figure 2: Needles made from porcupine

Reference: quills. Source:
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Topic: https://www.etsy.com/listing/155941167/
‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’, 2013. multipack-2-6-drilled-cut-porcupin/
https://www.seeker.com/innovations- inspired- Topic: Multipack 2"-6" DRILLED CUT
by-animals-1767348908.html Porcupine Quills Needles Beads for
quillwork, art projects, costumes, etc.
Porcupines' sharp quills inspired a team at ‘Harvard University’ to design needles that deliver
less painful injections. Sharp tips slip easily into flesh, thus it requires less force to inject into
flesh than regular hypodermic needles. This project by Harvard's ‘Jeffrey Karp’ and ‘Robert
Langer’ is being funded by ‘The National Institutes of Health’.
2. Spider Silk inspired to form Medical Adhesives
Reference:
Figure 4: Spider’s Silk. Reference: Figure 3: Medical Tape

https://www.adhesivesmag.com/articles/94 Reference:http://www.karplab.net/portfolio-
615-spider-silk-brings-adhesive- item/spider-web-inspired-medical-tape Topic:
‘Spider Web- Inspired Medical Tape’ Author:
opportunities Topic: ‘Spider Silk Brings
‘Joon Faii Ong’ Date: August 13, 2014.
Adhesive Opportunities.’ Date: May 2,
2016.
‘Jeffrey Karp’ (An associate professor of medicine at ‘Harvard Medical School’ and co-
director of the “Center for Regenerative Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital”.),
‘Robert Langer’ and their team previously developed a medical adhesive or medical tape
something like spider’s silk. This medical adhesive has some sticky and non-sticky areas. The
material (polymeric material - polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with thin layer of silicone) offers
incredible adherence, which goes on easily and comes off gently and in an emergency situation, it
can be pulled off rapidly.
"I strongly believe that evolution is truly the best problem-solver,” Karp said.
3. Gecko Lizard - inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls

Reference:
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS .
Topic: ‘Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls’, 2011
https://www.seeker.com/gecko-inspired-robot-rolls-up-walls-1765488955.html
Figure 5: Gecko Lizard. Source: Figure 6: Robot which rolls up walls. Reference:
https://www.seeker.com/innovations-inspired-by-animals- https://www.seeker.com/gecko-inspired-robot-rolls-up-walls-
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Author: JEN VIEGAS, Harsh Light. March25, 2013 Walls’. Source: DNEWS. Date: November 1, 2011.
Scientists have built a robot that mimics the lizard’s technique. Although the researchers have
been trying to build a robot that can rolls up walls like Gecko Lizards but initially they could not
get full success. Now a Canadian research team has designed a tank-like robot that has capability
to roll up walls and ceilings of any texture, even on glass using the same molecular "clinging"
technique as the Gecko lizard has. The robot's step is able to move on a variety of smooth and
uneven surfaces. The legs of this robot can support the whole weight of the machine and can be
cleaned with a simple wash.
A robot that can roll up walls and ceilings could lead to machines used to clean windows on
skyscrapers which are risky jobs for anyone. But it could also be used to explore buildings in
areas which are very dangerous for humans, such as in disaster or war zones. "We can't do what
Geckos do quite yet, but we're getting closer," said Jeff Krahn, a research assistant at the
‘Mechanisms of Robotics for Viable Applications (MENRVA) Lab’ at ‘Simon Fraser University
in Burnaby, British Columbia’.
4. A White Shark – Inspired to make ‘Shark Skin Suit’

Reference:
Figure 7: A White Shark. Reference: Figure 8: Olympic Swimmer, Wearing Swim

https://www.seeker.com/innovations- Suit Source: http://wwd.com/fashion-
inspired-by-animals-1767348908.html news/activewear/speedo-olympics-swimsuit-
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’. 10430310-10430310/ Topic: ‘Speedo
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Date: March 25, Unveils Olympic Swimsuits’. Author: ‘Jean E.
2013. Palmieri’ Date: May 13, 2016
Olympic swimmers sometimes wear what are known as ‘Shark Skin Suits’, according to
‘Russell Mark’, USA Swimming's director of biomechanics.In reality these suits are not made of
actual Skin of Shark. A White Shark is sleek (smooth) and fast in water due to its unique skin.
Using this quality of White Shark, swim suits are developed. They are slippery in feel, like
Sharks, and they make the wearer move faster than normal speed in the water by reducing friction
and drag. Shark Skin Suits are widely used by swimmers in Olympic Games. This is explained
by explained by ‘Russell Mark’ to Discovery News.
5. Peregrine Falcons – Inspired to make Supersonic Jet
Reference:
Figure10: B-2 Bomber (A Supersonic Jet)

Figure9: Peregrine Falcons.
Reference: Reference:
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inspired-by-animals-1767348908.html natures-b-2-bomber Topic: ‘This Is Nature’s
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’. B-2 Bomber’. Author: ‘Eric Limer’ Date: March
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’, ‘Dennis Jarvis’. 22, 2013.
Date: March 25, 2013.
According to the ‘National Institute of General Medical Sciences’, supersonic jets have
structures that work like the nostrils of peregrine falcons in a speed dive. (Nostril: either of two
external openings of the nasal cavity in vertebrates that admit air to the lungs and smells to the
olfactory nerves.)
The Peregrine Falcons bird, registering the speed of 200 miles per hour, can still breathe at
such speeds that we cannot believe. They do such due to their tiny cone-shaped nostril projection
that helps to guide airflow. The openings of many jet engines now have features similar cones.
6. Jellyfish – inspired to develop Cancer Detecting Microchips
Inventions Inspired by Animals

Reference:
Animals are inspiring ideas for high tech innovations that could help to reduce the pain of
injections and many more new in medical field, to simulate the enemies in military fight and to
make better protective covering for body for our military men and so more in the defence field
and also in other fields.
For example, the misleading behavior patterns of squirrels inspired ‘Georgia Institute of
Technology’ researchers to design robots that can cheat each other.
Squirrels have a quality to safe their food from other animals. They visit empty caches to make
fool the other animals who are trying to steal their food. The robots also work in a similar way, by
attracting the ‘predator robot’ to wrong locations for delaying discovery of protected resources.
There are some other examples of innovations which are inspired by animals kingdom. These
are given below.
1.Porcupines’ Qills AS needles.

Reference:
Figure 1: Porcupine Figure 2: Needles made from porcupine

Reference: quills. Source:
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Topic: https://www.etsy.com/listing/155941167/
‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’, 2013. multipack-2-6-drilled-cut-porcupin/
https://www.seeker.com/innovations- inspired- Topic: Multipack 2"-6" DRILLED CUT
by-animals-1767348908.html Porcupine Quills Needles Beads for
quillwork, art projects, costumes, etc.
Porcupines' sharp quills inspired a team at ‘Harvard University’ to design needles that deliver
less painful injections. Sharp tips slip easily into flesh, thus it requires less force to inject into
flesh than regular hypodermic needles. This project by Harvard's ‘Jeffrey Karp’ and ‘Robert
Langer’ is being funded by ‘The National Institutes of Health’.
2. Spider Silk inspired to form Medical Adhesives

Reference:
Figure 4: Spider’s Silk. Figure Reference:
3: Medical Tape
Reference:http://www.karplab.net/portfolio-
https://www.adhesivesmag.com/articles/94
item/spider-web-inspired-medical-tape Topic:
615-spider-silk-brings-adhesive-
‘Spider Web- Inspired Medical Tape’ Author:
opportunities Topic: ‘Spider Silk Brings
‘Joon Faii Ong’ Date: August 13, 2014.
Adhesive Opportunities.’ Date: May 2,
2016.
‘Jeffrey Karp’ (An associate professor of medicine at ‘Harvard Medical School’ and co-
director of the “Center for Regenerative Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital”.),
‘Robert Langer’ and their team previously developed a medical adhesive or medical tape
something like spider’s silk. This medical adhesive has some sticky and non-sticky areas. The
material (polymeric material - polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with thin layer of silicone) offers
incredible adherence, which goes on easily and comes off gently and in an emergency situation, it
can be pulled off rapidly.
"I strongly believe that evolution is truly the best problem-solver,” Karp said.
3. Gecko Lizard - inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls

Reference:
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS .
Topic: ‘Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls’, 2011
https://www.seeker.com/gecko-inspired-robot-rolls-up-walls-1765488955.html
Figure 5: Gecko Lizard. Source: Figure 6: Robot which rolls up walls. Reference:
https://www.seeker.com/innovations-inspired-by-animals- https://www.seeker.com/gecko-inspired-robot-rolls-up-walls-
1767348908.html Topic: Innovations Inspired by Animals. 1765488955.html Topic: ‘Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls -Up -
Author: JEN VIEGAS, Harsh Light. March25, 2013 Walls’. Source: DNEWS. Date: November 1, 2011.
Scientists have built a robot that mimics the

lizard’s technique. Although the researchers have been trying to build a robot that can rolls up
walls like Gecko Lizards but initially they could not get full success. Now a Canadian research
team has designed a tank-like robot that has capability to roll up walls and ceilings of any texture,
even on glass using the same molecular "clinging" technique as the Gecko lizard has. The robot's
step is able to move on a variety of smooth and uneven surfaces. The legs of this robot can
support the whole weight of the machine and can be cleaned with a simple wash.
A robot that can roll up walls and ceilings could lead to machines used to clean windows on
skyscrapers which are risky jobs for anyone. But it could also be used to explore buildings in
areas which are very dangerous for humans, such as in disaster or war zones. "We can't do what
Geckos do quite yet, but we're getting closer," said Jeff Krahn, a research assistant at the
‘Mechanisms of Robotics for Viable Applications (MENRVA) Lab’ at ‘Simon Fraser University
in Burnaby, British Columbia’.
4. A White Shark – Inspired to make ‘Shark Skin Suit’

Reference:
Figure 7: A White Shark. Reference: Figure 8: Olympic Swimmer, Wearing Swim

https://www.seeker.com/innovations- Suit Source: http://wwd.com/fashion-
inspired-by-animals-1767348908.html news/activewear/speedo-olympics-swimsuit-
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’. 10430310-10430310/ Topic: ‘Speedo
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Date: March 25, Unveils Olympic Swimsuits’. Author: ‘Jean E.
2013. Palmieri’ Date: May 13, 2016
Olympic swimmers sometimes wear what are known as ‘Shark Skin Suits’, according to
‘Russell Mark’, USA Swimming's director of biomechanics.In reality these suits are not made of
actual Skin of Shark. A White Shark is sleek (smooth) and fast in water due to its unique skin.
Using this quality of White Shark, swim suits are developed. They are slippery in feel, like
Sharks, and they make the wearer move faster than normal speed in the water by reducing friction
and drag. Shark Skin Suits are widely used by swimmers in Olympic Games. This is explained
by explained by ‘Russell Mark’ to Discovery News.
5. Peregrine Falcons – Inspired to make Supersonic Jet

Reference:
Figure10: B-2 Bomber (A Supersonic Jet)
Figure9: Peregrine Falcons.
Reference: Reference:
https://gizmodo.com/5991893/this-is-
https://www.seeker.com/innovations-
natures-b-2-bomber Topic: ‘This Is Nature’s
inspired-by-animals-1767348908.html
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired
B-2 By Animals’.
Bomber’. Author: ‘Eric Limer’ Date: March
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’, 22, ‘Dennis
2013. Jarvis’.
Date: March 25, 2013.
According to the ‘National Institute of General Medical Sciences’, supersonic jets have
structures that work like the nostrils of peregrine falcons in a speed dive. (Nostril: either of two
external openings of the nasal cavity in vertebrates that admit air to the lungs and smells to the
olfactory nerves.)
The Peregrine Falcons bird, registering the speed of 200 miles per hour, can still breathe at
such speeds that we cannot believe. They do such due to their tiny cone-shaped nostril projection
that helps to guide airflow. The openings of many jet engines now have features similar cones.
6. Jellyfish – inspired to develop Cancer Detecting Microchips

Reference:
Figure 12: Cancer Detecting Microchips in blood

Figure 11: Jellyfish Reference:
https://www.seeker.com/innovations- on monitor screen. Reference:
inspired-by-animals-1767348908.html https://www.engadget.com/2012/11/14/jellyfish-
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’inspired-microchip-captures-cancer-
. cells/ Topic:
‘Jellyfish’ or Jellies are soft bodied, free-
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’, ‘Garrett Rooney’. ‘Jellyfish-mimicking device could snatch cancer
Date: March 25, 2013 cells right out of the bloodstream.’ Author:
swimming aquatic animals with a
‘Deepak Dhingra’ Date: November14, 2012.
gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and long
tentacles. The bell can pulsate to achieve propulsion (the action of driving or
pushing forward) and locomotion (movement or the ability to move from one place to another).
The action of tentacles is to catch the prey and to defend from predators by emitting toxins in a
painful sting.
Taking inspiration from long and sticky tentacles of Jellyfish, Professors ‘Jeffrey Karp’ (An
associate professor of medicine at ‘Harvard Medical School’ and co-director of the “Center for
Regenerative Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital”) and his research team have
developed a new microchip. The chip uses a 3-D DNA network made up of long strands,
comparable to those of a jellyfish. It is slated for use in cancer detection.
"The chip we have developed is highly sensitive," researcher Weian Zhao explained."From just
a small quantity of blood, the chip has ability to detect and capture the small population of cancer
cells responsible for cancer relapse."
(Dr. Weian Zhao is an Associate Professor at the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research
Center, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Edwards Life Sciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology and Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California, Irvine)
7. Invention of Robotic Arm Taking Inspiration from Elephant Trunk

Reference: https://www.seeker.com/robotic-arm-inspired-by-elephant-trunk-1765141414.html Topic:
‘Robotic Arm Inspired by Elephant Trunk’ Author: ‘DNEWS’ Date: November 29, 2010. Time: 12:11
PM EST
Figure 14: Robotic Arms. Reference:

Figure 13: Robotic Arms.
https://www.seeker.com/robotic-arm-
Reference:https://phys.org/news/2010-11-
inspired-by-elephant-trunk-
robotic-arm-elephant-trunk-video.html Topic:
1765141414.html Topic: ‘Robotic Arm
‘Robotic Arm Shaped like an Elephant’s Trunk’.
Author: ‘Lin Edwards’ Date: November 25, 2010 Inspired by Elephant Trunk’ Author:
‘DNEWS’ Date: November 29, 2010. Time:
12:11 PM EST
The German company ‘Festo’ was inspired by the elephant’s trunk to develop
a bionic arm.This arm is called as Bionic Handling Assistant and it is free to move in every
directions. It is also named as ‘Third Hand System’ as ‘Festo’ calls it. It has a lot of uses in such
situations that need support from machines. These situations can be medical technology,
rehabilitation (the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and
therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness etc.) and as an aid for the handicapped, as well as
in agriculture, private homes and educational institutes. Festo also hopes that this invention will
be used widely in industrial practices, particularly as a handling system to support assembly
processes.
As an elephant can stretch its trunk in any direction to reach out and capture something,
Festo's invention can do something same also. The robotic arm is so sensitive that it can pick up
an egg. The end of the robotic ‘trunk’ is a bit different from end of elephant’s trunk, as it has four
claws to pick up items. The company describes those claws as ‘fingers’ and Festo says they can
safely move sensitive objects around a relatively small area.
Running Researches
# Bats use of sonar has been applied in medical ultrasound machines.

Reference:
Figure15. It is Bat. Reference:

https://www.seeker.com/innovations-inspired-
by-animals-1767348908.html
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals-Bat use of
sonar has been applied in medical Ultrasound
Machine’. Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’ and ‘Don Pfritzer’.
Date: March 25, 2013 Source: ‘US Fish and
Wildlife Service’
RE
Bat sonar has made long lead over man-made sonar and ultrasound devices, but scientists are
working to decrease that gap. Professor ‘Nathan Intrator’ of ‘Blavatnik School of Computer
Science’ of ‘Tel Aviv University, Israel’ and Professor ‘Jim Simmons’ of ‘Brown University,
Rhode Island, United States’ created mathematical models that improve our understanding of the
ultrasound process.
"Animals investigate pings with multiple filters or accessible fields, and we have revealed that
exploring each ping in multiple ways can lead to higher accuracy. By understanding sonar
animals, we can create a new family of ultrasound systems that will be able to explore our bodies
with more accurate medical imaging," Intrator said.
# Mantis Shrimp – may inspire to make a New Body Armor

Reference:
Figure 16: Mantis Shrimp. Reference: Figure 17: Mantis Shrimp. Reference:
https://www.seeker.com/innovations- https://viralcocktail.com/guy-trying-pet-
inspired-by-animals-1767348908.html mantis-shrimp-dumbest-person-ever/
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired by Animals- Topic: This Guy Trying to Pet a Mantis
Mantis Shrimp may inspire new body Shrimp Is the Dumbest Person Ever.
armor’. Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Date: By: Viral Cocktail News. Year: 2016.
March 25, 2013
Researchers are working to improve military body armor, as well as vehicle and aircraft
frames, by making attention towards the structure of a club-like crustacean arm. According to
Professor ‘David Kisailus’ (Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Materials
Science and Engineering) of the “Bourns College of Engineering, California, USA” ,The Mantis
Shrimp's club is rigid, light in weight, strong, crash tolerant and shock resistant.
He and his colleagues found that it is made out of highly concentrated minerals along with
microscopic, rotated layers of complex sugar fibers. This structure is inspiring to develop new and
surprising man-made material.
# T- Rex moved in a way that can be applied in Spacecraft

Reference:Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’, 2013.
Figure 18: Tyrannosaurus Rex (species of Dinosaurs) Reference: https://www.seeker.com/innovations-inspired-by-

animals-1767348908.html Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’. Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Date: March 25, 2013
Dinosaurs on Mars might sound more like a B-movie than something legit, but a team from UC
Berkeley came up with an innovative robot design which was based on how meat-eating
dinosaurs, such as T. rex, moved. The speed Tyrannosaurus Rex was about 19 Km/hour.
When the researchers studied about living lizards they found that lizards adjust the angle of
their tails in an energetic way to remain upright while skipping. The team leader of research team
‘Dr. Robert Full’ said, "Muscles willing, the dinosaur could be even more effective with a swing
of its tail in controlling body attitude in comparison with the lizards". Understanding this
movement inspired Robert Full and his colleagues to develop a robot that, with more
improvements, could be used to land a spacecraft and performing other tasks.
Reference:
Figure 11: Jellyfish Reference: Figure 12: Cancer Detecting Microchips in blood
https://www.seeker.com/innovations-inspired- on monitor screen. Reference:
by-animals-1767348908.html https://www.engadget.com/2012/11/14/jellyfish-
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’.
inspired-microchip-captures-cancer-cells/ Topic:
Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’, ‘Garrett Rooney’. Date: ‘Jellyfish-mimicking device could snatch cancer
March 25, 2013 ‘Jellyfish’cells right out of the bloodstream.’ Author:
or Jellies are‘Deepak Dhingra’ Date: November14, 2012.
soft bodied,
free-swimming aquatic animals with a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and long tentacles. The
bell can pulsate to achieve propulsion (the action of driving or pushing forward) and locomotion
(movement or the ability to move from one place to another). The action of tentacles is to catch
the prey and to defend from predators by emitting toxins in a painful sting.
Taking inspiration from long and sticky tentacles of Jellyfish, Professors ‘Jeffrey Karp’ (An
associate professor of medicine at ‘Harvard Medical School’ and co-director of the “Center for
Regenerative Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital”) and his research team have
developed a new microchip. The chip uses a 3-D DNA network made up of long strands,
comparable to those of a jellyfish. It is slated for use in cancer detection.
"The chip we have developed is highly sensitive," researcher Weian Zhao explained."From just
a small quantity of blood, the chip has ability to detect and capture the small population of cancer
cells responsible for cancer relapse."
(Dr. Weian Zhao is an Associate Professor at the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research
Center, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Edwards Life Sciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology and Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California, Irvine)
7. Invention of Robotic Arm Taking Inspiration from Elephant Trunk

Reference: https://www.seeker.com/robotic-arm-inspired-by-elephant-trunk-1765141414.html Topic:
‘Robotic Arm Inspired by Elephant Trunk’ Author: ‘DNEWS’ Date: November 29, 2010. Time: 12:11
PM EST
Figure 14: Robotic Arms. Reference:
Figure 13: Robotic Arms.
https://www.seeker.com/robotic-arm-
Reference:https://phys.org/news/2010-11-
inspired-by-elephant-trunk-
robotic-arm-elephant-trunk-video.html Topic:
1765141414.html Topic: ‘Robotic Arm
‘Robotic Arm Shaped like an Elephant’s Trunk’.
Inspired by
Author: ‘Lin Edwards’ Date: November 25,Elephant
2010 Trunk’ Author:
‘DNEWS’ Date: November 29, 2010. Time:
12:11 PM EST
The German company ‘Festo’ was inspired by the elephant’s trunk to develop
a bionic arm.This arm is called as Bionic Handling Assistant and it is free to move in every
directions. It is also named as ‘Third Hand System’ as ‘Festo’ calls it. It has a lot of uses in such
situations that need support from machines. These situations can be medical technology,
rehabilitation (the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and
therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness etc.) and as an aid for the handicapped, as well as
in agriculture, private homes and educational institutes. Festo also hopes that this invention will
be used widely in industrial practices, particularly as a handling system to support assembly
processes.
As an elephant can stretch its trunk in any direction to reach out and capture something,
Festo's invention can do something same also. The robotic arm is so sensitive that it can pick up
an egg. The end of the robotic ‘trunk’ is a bit different from end of elephant’s trunk, as it has four
claws to pick up items. The company describes those claws as ‘fingers’ and Festo says they can
safely move sensitive objects around a relatively small area.
Running Researches
# Bats use of sonar has been applied in medical ultrasound machines.

Reference:
Figure15. It is Bat. Reference:

https://www.seeker.com/innovations-inspired-
by-animals-1767348908.html
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals-Bat use of
sonar has been applied in medical Ultrasound
Machine’. Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’ and ‘Don Pfritzer’.
Date: March 25, 2013 Source: ‘US Fish and
Wildlife Service’
Bat sonar has made long lead over man-made sonar and ultrasound devices, but scientists are
working to decrease that gap. Professor ‘Nathan Intrator’ of ‘Blavatnik School of Computer
Science’ of ‘Tel Aviv University, Israel’ and Professor ‘Jim Simmons’ of ‘Brown University,
Rhode Island, United States’ created mathematical models that improve our understanding of the
ultrasound process.
"Animals investigate pings with multiple filters or accessible fields, and we have revealed that
exploring each ping in multiple ways can lead to higher accuracy. By understanding sonar
animals, we can create a new family of ultrasound systems that will be able to explore our bodies
with more accurate medical imaging," Intrator said.
# Mantis Shrimp – may inspire to make a New Body Armor

Reference:
Figure 16: Mantis Shrimp. Reference: Figure 17: Mantis Shrimp. Reference:
https://www.seeker.com/innovations- https://viralcocktail.com/guy-trying-pet-
inspired-by-animals-1767348908.html mantis-shrimp-dumbest-person-ever/
Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired by Animals- Topic: This Guy Trying to Pet a Mantis
Mantis Shrimp may inspire new body Shrimp Is the Dumbest Person Ever.
armor’. Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Date: By: Viral Cocktail News. Year: 2016.
March 25, 2013
Researchers are working to improve military body armor, as well as vehicle and aircraft
frames, by making attention towards the structure of a club-like crustacean arm. According to
Professor ‘David Kisailus’ (Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Materials
Science and Engineering) of the “Bourns College of Engineering, California, USA” ,The Mantis
Shrimp's club is rigid, light in weight, strong, crash tolerant and shock resistant.
He and his colleagues found that it is made out of highly concentrated minerals along with
microscopic, rotated layers of complex sugar fibers. This structure is inspiring to develop new and
surprising man-made material.
# T- Rex moved in a way that can be applied in Spacecraft

Reference:Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’, 2013.
Figure 18: Tyrannosaurus Rex (species of Dinosaurs) Reference: https://www.seeker.com/innovations-inspired-by-

animals-1767348908.html Topic: ‘Innovations Inspired By Animals’. Author: ‘JEN VIEGAS’. Date: March 25, 2013
Dinosaurs on Mars might sound more like a B-movie than something legit, but a team from UC
Berkeley came up with an innovative robot design which was based on how meat-eating
dinosaurs, such as T. rex, moved. The speed Tyrannosaurus Rex was about 19 Km/hour.
When the researchers studied about living lizards they found that lizards adjust the angle of
their tails in an energetic way to remain upright while skipping. The team leader of research team
‘Dr. Robert Full’ said, "Muscles willing, the dinosaur could be even more effective with a swing
of its tail in controlling body attitude in comparison with the lizards". Understanding this
movement inspired Robert Full and his colleagues to develop a robot that, with more
improvements, could be used to land a spacecraft and performing other tasks.

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1.Porcupines’ Qills AS needles.

Figure 1: Porcupine Figure 2: Needles made from porcupine

Figure 4: Spider’s Silk. Reference: Figure 3: Medical Tape

3. Gecko Lizard - inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls

4. A White Shark – Inspired to make ‘Shark Skin Suit’

Figure 7: A White Shark. Reference: Figure 8: Olympic Swimmer, Wearing Swim

Figure10: B-2 Bomber (A Supersonic Jet)

6. Jellyfish – inspired to develop Cancer Detecting Microchips