Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers

Episode 1571 March 07, 2022 00:14:13
Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers
Intelligent Design the Future
Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers

Mar 07 2022 | 00:14:13

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Show Notes

Today’s ID the Future spotlights a Bristol University engineer whose design work helped Great Britain’s cycling team win gold in the most recent Summer Olympics. Stuart Burgess, currently on a visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge and an expert on linkage mechanisms, discusses with host Eric Anderson how top engineering firms are paying big money to learn from the extraordinary designs found in biology so as to improve their own designs. Burgess has designed groundbreaking linkage mechanisms, but he says the human knee is still well ahead of what even the most advanced human engineers have managed in this Read More ›

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