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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Bio-Engineering Feedback Loop

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Robert Full, a UC Berkeley biologist, has been studying how geckos run and climb walls. Equipped with such a knowledge, Dr. Full has been collaborating with a variety of engineers to help them design new gadgets. In this TED talk, Dr. Full demonstrates how biophysics research can help engineering, and, surprisingly, how engineering feedback can help uncover knowledge about the living world.

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