Thursday, September 4, 2008

Bionics

Bionics is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.This is simple technique that is useful for starting creative thinking by try to look for the relationship between problem and solution.


The bionic design is the synthetic techniques to create the optimum, intelligent and eco-adaptable artificialities using the many ideas from the structural, material composition and the birth-evolution process of living things.
Our present research are to create the new design techniques using the neural network system, the genetic algorithms, the artificial life system and mathematical programming method derived from the biomechanics, bionics and human-mechanics.



The "Bionic Car" was a 2005 concept car from Mercedes inspired by a sea dweller from tropical latitudes: Ostracion Cubicus — more commonly known as the boxfish. The concept car's being included in an exhibit called "Design and the Elastic Mind" at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit's all about "showcasing trailblazing innovations in the fields of design and science. While a concept car that looks vaguely fish-like isn't normally reason for inclusion in an art exhibit, the "Bionic Car" was the first to showcase Benz's Bluetec diesel emission-control technology. As our love affair with diese is well documented, we can't think of a better inclusion to an art exhibit. Full press release after the jump.





Bionic Log William Tremblay
Bionic Log is a pneumatic robotic sculpture built around a section of tree trunk. Inside the log is a bank of pneumatic valves driven by a simple microcontroller program. These valves permit the flow of compressed air to the actuators in the limbs of the robot, which contract in a manner very similar to animal muscles. Although the control mechanism is simple, the resulting motions are very recognizable as human gestures, albeit the gestures of a confused or wounded person. Bionic Log is an extrapolated collision of the conflicting human imperatives of expediency and sentimentality, at once supporting and disproving the comforting notion that technology can solve any problem

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