Episode 41: Inventions/ Bionics

The history of humanity is also the history of its inventiveness. From the first stone tools to the computer, invention has followed invention. Innovations make life easier. Great inventors like Leonardo da Vinci conceived devices that were realized only centuries later. However, you don't have to be a da Vinci to make inventions. Everyone has a little inventor inside them. A science of its own, bionics, examines how the principles of nature can be applied in the construction of technical devices and inventions. Bionics - the fusion of biology and technology - shows that nature has often already invented what technicians and inventors are desperately searching for.