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UW Center Turns To Nature To Solve Engineering Problems

KUOW | By Kate O'Connell
Published April 2, 2015 at 2:22 PM AKDT
A department at UW uses reverse engineering to improve flight technology based on nature.
Flickr Photo/Steve Edwards (CC-BY-NC-ND)
A department at UW uses reverse engineering to improve flight technology based on nature.

Ross Reynolds speaks with Tom Daniel, director of the University of Washington Air Force Center of Excellence on Nature-Inspired Flight Technologies and Ideas, about how reverse engineering biology can improve flight technology.

https://youtu.be/1QdYFhFqChY
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