The future becomes more biological

A Bionik World in the year 2099

Technische Universität Berlin

Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies

Ingo Rechenberg

1

Protoplasm lump in the primordial

ocean

2

From this the fish developed

3

Life peeks out of the water and

spreads over the country

4

Our ancestors climb the treetops

5

Finally we admire ourselves in the

mirror

Bionik: The study of the results of

biological evolution

from the engineering point of view

Bio Techlogy nicsBionik

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Bionik 2099

The view into the future ?

Havier-than-air flying machines are impossible

L. K. (1895)Lord Kelvin

My prognoses !

Bionik manufacturing in the year 2099

Bionik extreme: The matured automobiles will be harvested

2099

The new age

of manufacturingCrude

metal cutting

2007

Manufacturing by growth

2099Bionik-bath

Swarf

Scale reduction of a growing gearweel

Scaling substance

From „Macro“

to „Nano“

Dwarf growth

Two new fields of Bionik at the end of the 21th century

Replionik

Auxonik

Science of self reproducing structures

Science of growing structures

Self reproducing molecules, which produce copies of themselves

Nutrition molecules

Starting molecule

Self reproducing molecules, which produce copies of themselves

Dissoziation

Self reproducing molecules, which produce copies of themselves

Self reproducing molecules, which produce copies of themselves

Self reproducing molecules, which produce copies of themselves

Seed-gearweel

Breeding bath

Mass-manufacturing 2099

Future of functional and smart materials

Self-alignment of the spongy bone microstructure

Ossit

®

Alignment of rodlike crystalls in the direction of the stress trajectories

Ossit

®-bridge at the opening day 2099

20 days later

05t,55t,2 t0

40 days later60 days later

Self-structuring of an Ossit ®-bridge

with increasing load

Ossit

® NovoOssit

®

Additional feature of self healing

Advancement of

NovoOssit

Road

2099

Self healing guarantees a road durability of 50 years

Road damages become overgrown

Energy production technologies in 2099

Hydrogen will be produced by artificial photosynthesis

H2

2099: Hydrogen era

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Equatin

s

o

C H O2

HH

OH

H HO

H

C H O2

The two compartment technology of Nostoc muscorum

OOH

H

C H O2

Explosive gas

Nostoc muscorum

Photo-bioreactor in the

desert Erg Chebbi

(South Morocco)

1990

„Heliomites“ in the Sahara

View of a 100 kW solar hydrogen farm

5m

620m4,5m

6cm

Heliomit 2099

Painting

2099: The self breeding solar paint BRESOPAN

®

HarvestingFormation

Vo lta

Electrode Electrode

illuminated

Traffic and mobility in the future world

Airliner in the year 2099

80% less fuel than 100 years ago through:

Multi-winglets (example bird)

Micro longitudinal grooves (example shark)

Integral propulsion (example flapping wings)

Compliant surface (example dolphin)

Submarine ocean liner in the year 2099

90% less fuel than 100 years ago through:

Elastic- damping skin (example dolphin)

Micro longitudinal grooves (example shark)

Micro bubble vain (example penguin)

Integral-propulsion (example jelly fish)

The propeller sieve model

Sieve

Propeller (Thrust production)

(Drag production)

Two propeller sieve vehicles cross a room with still air

Integral propulsion in nature

Fish

Bird

Paramecium

Jellyfish

Manta

Eel

Froth whipping

… an absurd propulsion

2000 on the ferry from Gibraltar to Africa

wasted energy

Biologically inspired waste disposal

2099: Development of the protein mimicry

2007

PROMIM®

? 2007

In biologyEverything is made of the same material

Eye lensSpider thread

Nerve cell

Traction rope

2099: Everything comes on a heap

Decomposition of PROMIM- products to their elementary components

Accelerator substance

Computation and the Global Neural Net

The world wide web (www) 2007

Von Neumann machine

The Global Neural Net (GNN) 2099

Neural computer

A Parallel Neural Net (PNN), which is wired to antropomorphic sense organs

„The second brain in the trousers pocket 2099“

Feed back

events

MorphJet 7

MorphJet 7

MorphJet 7

Fill in the morphofluid

Put in the morpho-germ

Select product in the GNN

Take out the phenoductInstructions for the

MorphoJet 7

M o rp h J e t7

2099: 3D printer

Cochloids and roboflies

Artificial Ladybug

Example for a cleaning bug

Cochloid cleaning the window 2099

Advertisement of an all-purpose artificial dragonfly

B & E Company

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Modell2

099

Modell2

099

An autonomous swarm of

artificial dragonflies on an

environmental inspection

Artificial dragonflies examine a sewer

Artificial dragonflies form a smart antenna to detect avalanche victims

Electric sense of a shark

Animals hidden under the sea ground

Humens hidden under the snow masses

Nano-biosensors and „the supersense“

Single molecule dedection by

the male of the silkworm moth

Molecule „fishing net“

! Pheromone

Single molecule detection through a catalytic cascade 2099

Receptor

Signal molecule

100

10 000

1

Catalizer

Catalyzer

Catalycer

start event

Artificial dragonfly with a single molecule sensor eliminating a potato beetle

Leaf aroma

Potato field

attract

Bionik in civil engineering

Robotermites establish the columns of a motorway bridge

Termite building

2099: Not top down but bottom up

Tamarisk: Maximum root depth 60 meter

2099: Radifores establish the foundations of the tower blocks

radix = rootforare = bore

Latin:

Self replicating vehicles in space missions

2099: Von-Neumann-Probes are sent into the universe

Von Neumann probes are biologically inspired space vehicles, which are able to reproduce themselves on planets with suitable resources.

Von-Neumann-Probes roam about in the Universe

Terra-life expands

Von-Neumann-Probes replicate on a planet with resourses

Venus balloon sprays ABOs (Artificial Balloon Organisms)

Terraforming Venus in the year 2099

Venus atmosphere

96.5% C

3.5% N2

O2complex

Sports and games in the Bionik era

Kenguru jumping

Diving with Axolotl gills

Murrobil championchip

Imitating the

performance

of animals

MAV Demonstration

Megaloprepus coerulatus

Micro Air Vehicle (MAV)

Size

comparision

9.5 cm

9.5 cm

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