The Genius of Bionic Morphing Wings: Future of Flight?

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Nature is the best engineer. This is an idea that underpins the world of biomimetics, or biologically inspired engineering. The belief is that by imitating nature, we can learn how to improve our man made systems. We can see this in action in this video, where bionic morphing wings are used to massively improve the efficiency of drones.

Key Sources:
www.nature.com/articles/s44182-024-00015-y
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.29.573672v…
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02389

Credits:
Producer & Presenter: Ryan Hughes
Research: Sian Buckley and Ryan Hughes
Video Editing: @aniokukade‬ and Ryan Hughes
Music and Sound Design: @aniokukade‬

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