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EcoMechatronics and Bioinspired Design Ecology, Circular Economy, and Sustainability

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Bioinspiration is an interdisciplinary, creative, and innovative design approach that merges technology with biology by observing nature, properties, and biological systems. It aims to learn, discover, and capture essential principles and concepts inspired by nature, transform ideas, create new designs, and develop new technologies, techniques, algorithms, and systems. Biomimetic is a type of bioinspired design approach that aims to reproduce aspects of functions or properties of the biological systems by solving practical problems through functional analysis. Biomimicry represents a subcategory of the bioinspired design approach that considers nature an adaptable model and a source to learn from and find evolved and proven solutions, strategies, principles, valuable functions, and structures to meet sustainable development challenges in social, environmental, resources and biodiversity perspectives. Hence, for effective synergy between EcoMechatronics and bioinspired design approaches, it is vital to understand applications, ecology, environment, sustainability, and the management of ecosystems requirements through intensive analysis associated with the study and observation of natural systems. The goal is to have a conscious conclusion to emulate nature’s best properties and functions. Therefore, it is essential to understand the conditions that allow such an approach to produce creative designs introducing new ideas, functions, and systems. Creative design inspired by nature is the way to support new innovative and environmentally friendly technological development. The development of smart materials is laying down the foundation to create new biomimetic-based technologies. However, the development in the field is facing difficulties by different technical constraints that continue to challenge and need to be addressed effectively.

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Habib, M.K. (2022). EcoMechatronics and Bioinspired Design Ecology, Circular Economy, and Sustainability. In: Hehenberger, P., Habib, M., Bradley, D. (eds) EcoMechatronics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07555-1_4

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