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 | | Examples of bionics results in engineering include hulls of boats imitating the skin membrane of dolphins, sonar, radar and medical ultrasound imaging imitating echolocation of bats, non-stick coating imitating lotus effect. |
 | | Evolutionary computation was also motivated by bionics idea but it took the idea further by simulating evolution 'in silico' and producing well optimized solutions that had never appeared in nature. |
 | | For example, in computer science, cybernetics tries to model actual organic structures that make us intelligent, while artificial intelligence tries to model the intelligent function regardless of the particular way it can be achieved. |
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