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Watch the fourth webinar in our Bioinspiration webinar series, on bioinspired robotics and structural engineering.
Learn about 'saving the world with insects' including discussion on collective construction, social insects’ swarm intelligence and robotics. Hear how researchers are developing new technology through interdisciplinary collaborations across biology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science.
The webinar features the following speakers, in conversation with evolutionary biologist and co-chair of the BioInspiration Hallmark Research Initiative, Professor Mark Elgar.
- Associate Professor Tanya Latty, head of the Insect Behaviour and Ecology Lab at The University of Sydney
- Dr Justin Werfel, from the Designing Emergence Laboratory and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, both at Harvard University
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First published on 9 May 2022.
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