Playlist

Technology designed by nature

These exciting innovations and breakthroughs demonstrate what's possible when humans draw inspiration from some of nature’s best work.

Cheryl Hayashi

The magnificence of spider silk

Regina Dugan

From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

Carl Schoonover

How to look inside the brain

Emma Teeling

The secret of the bat genome

Hadyn Parry

Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Deborah Gordon

What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet

Robert Full

The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

Jaap de Roode

How butterflies self-medicate

Neri Oxman

Design at the intersection of technology and biology

Vijay Kumar

Robots that fly ... and cooperate