How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation

by Jean-Arcady Meyer and Agnès Guillot

Book Overview

How biology has inspired technology -- from a watch with an alarm modeled on a cricket's noisemaking to a robot that can dance. Humans have modeled their technology on nature for centuries. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014521
• ISBN13: 9780262014526
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher