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. 2015 Aug 6;5(4):20150031. doi: 10.1098/rsfs.2015.0031

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Nature is rich with sources of inspiration for new ideas. ‘Biomimicry’ aims to mimic or recreate some of the interesting properties of biological systems in non-living ones. Consider the squid: we need not understand how a tentacle moves to recreate at least some of its motion. Photograph by Hans Hillewaert.