via ted.com See Robert Full’s talk, http://bit.ly/cDaNmd, for a harder science take on the same theme. Posted via web from Aneesh’s posterous

table of artificial vs. natural design characteristics (adapted from robert fuller’s talk on engineering and evolution, with a little help from buckminster fuller.) Artificial Natural large small flat, orthogonal curved rigid flexible few actuators many actuators few sensors many sensors compression-reinforced tension-reinforced