Bionics aims to transpose solutions from nature into technical applications. There are two main methods: analog bionics which finds natural analogies like wing tips, and abstractive bionics which identifies principles from biology like water repellent surfaces. Bionics is useful for prosthetics, with over 185,000 Americans needing limb replacements annually. It also aids in energy problems by mimicking photosynthesis, miniaturization by creating biological transistors, and aids disabled individuals like Stephen Hawking and Oscar Pistorius. The term bionics was coined in 1958 but nature-inspired inventions date back to designs by Leonardo Da Vinci.

2. Bionics
Almost everyone has heard about it, but few really know. So
what is this?
The new discipline of bionics,
which aims to transpose
developed the live nature of
the technical solutions into
practice.
But why is this effective?

3. The exciting natural selection in nature is the optimal solution of
a problem, in addiction to this it was billion of years to
develop.
What are the methods:
Analog bionics:
-Defining the problem
-Search for analogies in nature
-Analysis of analogies found in nature
-Find a solution to the problem based on
the knowledge acquired
For example: wing tips

4. Abstractive bionics:
-Research of biological systems
-Identification and description of
the approach
-Principle abstraction
-Analysis of possible technical
applications
-Realization
For example: water repellent materials

5. Why we need this?
• USA only 185,000 Americans annually lose a limbs each year
Össur, one of the world’s leading prosthetics markers, estimates
that in 2012, the size of the prosthetic market in the U.S., EMEA
and Asia regions was between $850-$950 million.

6. Other uses
• Energy problems Chemist Daniel Nocera of Harvard
University and his team nset out in
search of a better catalyst, one that
would play well with living
organisms while effectively
splitting water. As the team reports
in Science on June 2, they found it
in an alloy of cobalt and
phosphorus, an amalgam already
in use as an anticorrosion coating
for plastic and metal parts found in
everything from faucets to circuit
boards. With a little charge, this
new catalyst can assemble itself
out of a solution of regular water,
cobalt and phosphate.

7. Other uses(2)
• Miniaturization
Pretty much anything can be
a computer, if it can compute
logical functions, store data,
and transmit information --
even living cells. A team at
Stanford University has
accomplished one of the the
final tasks necessary to turn
cells into working computers:
They've created a biological
transistor, called a
transcriptor, that uses DNA
and RNA instead of electrons
and responds to logical
functions.

8. People who use bionic technologies
• Stephen Hawking:He is
an English theoretical
physicist, cosmologist,
author and Director of
Research at the Centre
for Theoretical
Cosmology within
the University of
Cambridge. His
scientific works include
a collaboration
with Roger.
Incredibly, Professor Hawking
controls all the functions of his
Windows tablet PC using just a
single switch.
As Hawking’s physical condition
gradually deteriorates, his typing
speed has dropped to just one or
two words per minute.

9. People who use bionic technologies(2)
• Oscar Pistorius: Oscar Pistorius can
run a quarter mile in 45.07
seconds — fast enough to
compete in the 2012 Olympic
Games. He does it without feet.
The Flex-Foot Cheetah is
a prosthetic human foot
replacement developed
by biomedical engineer Van
Phillips.
The Flex-Foot Cheetah and similar
models are worn by Oscar
Pistorius and other amputee
athletes in the Paralympics and
elsewhere. It is made from carbon
fibre, and unlike all previous foot
prostheses, it stores kinetic
energy from the wearer's steps as
potential energy, like a spring,
allowing the wearer to run and
jump. It is now (as of September
2012) made by Össur.

10. In history
The term bionics was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958 while working
at the Aeronautics Division House at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
However, nature-inspired inventions, older then the word itself.

11. Inventions
• 1.Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying
machine:
• One of da Vinci’s most famous
inventions, the flying machine
(also known as the
"ornithopter") ideally displays
his powers of observation and
imagination, as well as his
enthusiasm for the potential
of flight. The design for this
invention is clearly inspired by
the flight of winged animals,
which da Vinci hoped to
replicate. In fact, in his notes,
he mentions bats, kites and
birds as sources of inspiration.
Unfortunately, as da Vinci himself might
have realized, while the flying machine
may have flown once it was in the air, a
person could never have created enough
power to get the device off the ground.

12. 2.cat’s eye reflector
• The cat's eye is a retroreflective safety device used in road
marking and was the first of a range of raised pavement markers. It
originated in the UK in 1933 and is today used all over the world. The
original form consisted of two pairs of reflective glass spheres set into
a white rubber dome, mounted in a cast-iron housing. This is the kind
that marks the centre of the road, with one pair of cat's eyes showing
in each direction.
The blackouts of World War
II (1939–1945) and the shuttered
car headlights then in use
demonstrated the value of Shaw's
invention and helped popularise
their mass use in the UK.

13. 3.Computer viruses:
• Computer viruses also show similarities with biological viruses in
their way to curb program-oriented information towards self-
reproduction and dissemination

14. 4.A hand that can feel: • After 10 years of
research, the NEBIAS
project has created
oneof the world’s most
advances bionic hands
– one that can feel
objects. A neutral
interface provides
sensory information
from the artifical hand
to the brain. This links
the patient’s nervous
system with enchanced
sensors embedded in
the prosthesis,
enabling the user to
control complex hand
and finger movements.

15. 5.Total artifical heart:
• A compeletely artifical heart was developed by SynCardia, and
has already awaiting a heart transplant. The device is a
battery powered, self-contained, total replacement system.

16. 6.Retinal implants:
• There are now some 100recipients of the Argus II retinal prosthesis
system, which is approved for use in the US and the EU. This bionic
eye is a tiny camera mounted on a pair of glasses that sends images
to an epiretinal prosthesis that is surgically implanted in the eye-

17. 7.thought-controlled robotic leg:
A pair of sensors
embedded in his muscle
tissue detect electrical
signals from the brain,
connect the neural dots,
and wirelessly transmit
that signal to the robotic
leg. The device is
targeted for commercial
use by 2018.

18. In politics
• Advocates, especially in the anti-globalization movement, are already
examples of runaway evolution – rendering a system that appeals to
the consumer but which is inefficient at use of energy and raw
materials. Biomimicry, they argue, is aneffective strategy to restore
basic efficiency.

19. Futuristic ambitions
• There are many
opponents of this,
but on my opinion
we stand
confidently in
front of the
future. Think
about it! It has a
lot of potential.
We can develop
physical and
mental abilities of
different
innovations.

20. My potential innovations
• Brain implant:I think everyone will have such this thing. It will boost
our mental focus and memory. This will be the end of all mental
illness.
• Futuristic internet: It will function as the brain. Neurons will be the
websites and it will work like an alive organization. These will be not
only to transmit information, but also will to do communicate
with each other.
What do you think? Would you be
able to bulid a future of bionic? Do
you have something idea? If yes, then
you realize it.