How Roboticists have already taken moves in robot design with biomimicry?

While robots and robotic fantasies have lived for over two millennia in some form, in our world of fast-evolving cheap technologies, we are only starting to see their expected benefits succeed. Robots are now penetrating our homes for household work. They are cooking our food, making our vehicles, milking our cattle, doing surgery, and treating us. Robots are vulnerable to fewer mistakes, need less maintenance, and are more economical. As a consequence, the performance rates are much higher. And now roboticists have already taken moves in robot design with biomimicry, i.e. biomimicry robots.

Although bio-inspired technology is learning from the natural world and developing a process that is easier and more efficient than the method found in nature, biomimicry is copying from nature. Biomimetic robotics research is being performed presently in several research institutions across the globe with the goal of creating a range of biomimetic robots with a much higher degree of operation competence and reliability in unfamiliar settings than the robots already in use.

Here are the top 5 Biomimicry Robots:

RoboBee

RoboBees

In nature, bees are one of the most important insects. Therefore, for more than 10 years, the researchers at Harvard SEAS have been working to develop RoboBees, eventually achieving the first flight in 2013. Using the same wings they use to fly in the air, the RoboBees will dive from the air, into the sea, and continue to swim underwater. Other than pollinating flowers, they may be used for a variety of applications. For ecological surveillance, biological experiments, and rescue operations, RoboBees can also be used.

BigDog

BigDog 

BigDog was founded by Boston Dynamics, a company formerly owned by Google. They are known as Softbank Group today.  Such robust robots can operate at magnificently high speeds and could be beneficial for carrying heavy loads around them. To support soldiers in carrying supplies, it acts as a pack animal.

SoFi

Sofi

Built by MIT engineers, a robotic fish named SoFi does a really good job of looking like yet another fish in the ocean. Its rippling motion looks just like another fish, and the controller is a waterproof Super Nintendo remote that controls it, just like playing video games. On board, there is a light control unit that can change the air flow to allow the fish to rise or dive quickly. The outcome is a robot which, for longer periods of time, can travel in all directions in the ocean.

BioNicKangaroo

BionicKangaroo

For the past few years, Festo has been building secretly on their most innovative bio-inspired robot, yet invincible hopping robotic kangaroo, in their massive German laboratory den. It can mimic the hopping behavior of real kangaroos in a practical way, which ensures that it can regain energy effectively from one leap to help it make another hop. The actual kangaroos would get very tired easily without this skill, but by using their tendons like elastic strings, the animals can attach easily for considerable periods of time at high velocities.

MantaDroid

 MantaDroid

An underwater robot designed to move and look like a manta ray has been developed by researchers from the National University of Singapore, which better disguises the computer in its aquatic environment. The MantaDroid is intended to be used in underwater monitoring and studies of marine biodiversity.