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Marco Tamborini - From Bionics to Biohybrids, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

From Bionics to Biohybrids

Bioinspired Objects and the Engineering of Life

Av Marco Tamborini

441 kr

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For centuries, scientists have looked to nature for models when inventing new technologies. From Bionics to Biohybrids shows how ideas drawn from biology have inspired new ways of making and thinking—from robots modeled on living organisms to materials that mimic natural processes. Through vivid examples from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Marco Tamborini explores how these “bioinspired” innovations reshape what we know about science, design, and the natural world itself. By bringing together the history of science and the philosophy of technology, Tamborini reveals how evolving research practices blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. The result is a compelling account of how nature continues to guide technological imagination and how the quest to understand life has transformed the tools we build to study it.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-09
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • ISBN: 9780822968429
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Marco Tamborini is an associate professor at Pegaso University in Italy, where he teaches, supervises students, and conducts research in the history and philosophy of science and technology.

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Engineering’s debts to biology have long been understood in terms of imitation, but as Marco Tamborini demonstrates in this ambitious book, the relation between organism and artifact has taken many forms: copying natural structures, simulating functions, modeling evolutionary processes, and, most recently, incorporating living matter into machines. By examining what he calls ‘bioinspired objects’ through the philosophical grammars of the practices that produced them, Tamborini shows how each grammar encodes its own ontology of life and its own politics—from Nazi biotechnics and the Cold War bionics race to today’s sustainability-driven biohybrids. More than a prehistory of contemporary robotics, the book offers a penetrating inquiry into how nature and technology redefined one another across the long twentieth century.

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