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17/05/2023
如何才可以停止过度消耗能源和原料、减低由建筑所产生的浪费和污染呢？我们有什么方法制造出良性、可持续发展和全球通用的材料，建造未来的建筑？今集的设计师和建筑师透过观察不同生物找出了答案。几百万年来，动植物和微生物发展出各种最有效的方法，建造最美的结构和藏身之所；他们用现成的材料和能源，根据环境需要，打造最能够保护自己的居所。我们能否仿效大自然，以可持续、受生物启发的物料来建造集多功能于一身的建筑物？房屋、建筑物、高楼大楼…未来发明家透过观察和3D打印技术，模仿自然世界的超能力，打造明日世界。
Builders
How could we put an end to the excessive cost in energy and raw materials, to the waste and pollution generated by our constructions? How could we « grow », no matter the scale, virtuous, sustainable and universal materials which will constitute tomorrow’s building facades?
All designers and architects we meet are fascinated: the living organisms they observe have already answered these questions. For millions of years, animals, plants and germs have developed the most varied and effective solutions to build the most beautiful structures, membranes or covers, the most protective housing adapted to their environment by simply using the ingredients and energy at their disposal.
What if we copied nature and built all our constructions with sustainable, fossil fuel free and self-repairing bio inspired materials fitted with multiple functions and performances?
Houses, buildings, skyscrapers: through observation, poetry, robots and 3D printers, the innovators of tomorrow try to mimic those super abilities of the living to build tomorrow’s world.
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未来交通
现今世界发展迅速，资源却有限，我们应如何开发较环保的交通方式，减少污染和原材料消耗？产品和机械人又如何能做到更可靠、活动更流畅和高效？
无论是动植物或微生物，所有物种都有自己一套求生方式，懂得以最精准的方法协调身体活动，加速、逃跑和攻击，并以最节能的方法避开碰撞，从而走得更远。当中的进化过程经过几百万年时间才完成，期间更没有制造任何垃圾，没有浪费垂手可得的资源。
今集，我们会看看工程师、企业家和科学家，如何从海陆空生物身上寻找灵感，尝试仿效它们活动自如的机制，开创更方便的未来。
Mobility
In a world in constant acceleration but with limited resources, how to invent means of transportation that are less polluting, less greedy in raw materials and with no impact on our environment? How to make objects and robots with more reliable, more fluid and more efficient movements?
Animals, plants, microbes ... The living has found remarkable solutions to escape and attack optimally, to propel, accelerate, coordinate its movements in the most precise way, and to avoid collisions energy-efficiently, to go the furthest possible. This development took millions of years but without generating any rubbish, without wasting the materials at immediate disposal.
In this episode, we will discover how, by seeking to copy the super solutions imagined by these organisms to move as efficiently as possible on land, in the water or in the air, the creators of the future, whether they are engineers, entrepreneurs or scientists, invent the world of tomorrow.07/06/2023 -
超感官
视觉、嗅觉、听觉、触觉、味觉，我们这五个感官帮我们探索周围的世界，并提醒我们当中的危险。可以即使我们的眼睛、耳朵、鼻子、味蕾或皮肤有多发达，我们的感觉器官也不能让我们洞悉所有威胁！虽然大自然赋予我们各个感官，但事实上确是有一些「信号」是人类无法感知的。
同时，一些生物却能轻易感应和译解这些信号（如红外线、振动等），因为数十亿年的物种演化迫使他们发展出高效的侦测策略和强大的感应器，来自我保护、互相沟通和觅食。
要是我们能复制这些「超级感应器」来提升自身能力的话会怎样？要是大自然教会我们如何迅速识别潜在的危险、令我们能更懂得避开危机，又会怎样？
Sensibility
Sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste: our 5 senses allow us to understand the world around us and warn us of its dangers. But as advanced as our eyes, our ears, our noses, our taste buds or our skin may be, our sensory organs do not allow us to apprehend all threats! There are indeed "signals" that we humans are unable to perceive with the senses that nature has endowed us with.
Meanwhile, some living species can easily sense and decode these signals (infrared, vibrations...) because, over billions of years of evolution, they were compelled to devise hyper-efficient detection strategies and to develop overpowering sensors to protect themselves, communicate or feed.
What if we could copy these "super sensors" to increase our own capabilities? What if nature taught us how to swiftly identify the dangers that await us, so that we could avoid them better?31/05/2023 -
最强防御
人类其实也不是那么聪明。经过多年进化，我们的脑袋让我们有能力探索世界，从亚原子世界到外太空都难不到我们；可是，我们到现在还是非常脆弱！身体是人类的最大弱点——不慎从几级楼梯掉下来便足以令我们半身不遂，一个普通病毒几小时内就能夺去我们性命，哪怕只是缺氧不到两分钟也会死……
一件工业制品无论性能有多好，其反抗力都远远比不上大自然创造的原材料。硬壳、鳞片、盔甲，很多生物都能善用丰富的资源，以最少的能量为自己制造出最强的保护，还丝毫不会浪费，是最优秀的工程师。
Resistance
Man is far from being that gifted! Evolution has given us a powerful brain that allows us to explore the world, from the subatomic world to outer space, but we remain totally fragile and dramatically vulnerable! Our body is our main weakness: a simple fall high of a few steps can leave us paralyzed, a common virus can take us away in a few hours, the lack of oxygen can do so in less than 2 minutes ...
Even our industrial objects, as effective as they may be, are far from equaling the resistance of raw materials created by nature! Shells, scales, armor... Living organisms are far better engineers than us, able to create the strongest protections from abundant resources, spending a minimum of energy and without any waste.24/05/2023 -
再生建筑
如何才可以停止过度消耗能源和原料、减低由建筑所产生的浪费和污染呢？我们有什么方法制造出良性、可持续发展和全球通用的材料，建造未来的建筑？今集的设计师和建筑师透过观察不同生物找出了答案。几百万年来，动植物和微生物发展出各种最有效的方法，建造最美的结构和藏身之所；他们用现成的材料和能源，根据环境需要，打造最能够保护自己的居所。我们能否仿效大自然，以可持续、受生物启发的物料来建造集多功能于一身的建筑物？房屋、建筑物、高楼大楼…未来发明家透过观察和3D打印技术，模仿自然世界的超能力，打造明日世界。
Builders
How could we put an end to the excessive cost in energy and raw materials, to the waste and pollution generated by our constructions? How could we « grow », no matter the scale, virtuous, sustainable and universal materials which will constitute tomorrow’s building facades?
All designers and architects we meet are fascinated: the living organisms they observe have already answered these questions. For millions of years, animals, plants and germs have developed the most varied and effective solutions to build the most beautiful structures, membranes or covers, the most protective housing adapted to their environment by simply using the ingredients and energy at their disposal.
What if we copied nature and built all our constructions with sustainable, fossil fuel free and self-repairing bio inspired materials fitted with multiple functions and performances?
Houses, buildings, skyscrapers: through observation, poetry, robots and 3D printers, the innovators of tomorrow try to mimic those super abilities of the living to build tomorrow’s world.17/05/2023 -
超级胶水
很多生物都有自己一套方法，可以黏附在自然界任何表面上，方便居住、活动和保护自己。另一边厢，又有其他物种利用滑溜的表皮，成功防止尘垢、细菌和其他东西在自己身上逗留。生物世界里的这些黏附和滑脱超能力，能否启发我们改革创新？有黏合或排斥能力的物料对我们非常重要，是人类基本需要的一部份。愈来愈多科学家、设计师和创业家从动植物身上汲取灵感，发明比现在更便宜、有效和可持续的黏合和滑脱铺面物料。
Adhesion
A lot of organisms have found wonderful solutions to adhere to all kinds of surfaces in nature, whether it is to accommodate, to move or to protect themselves. Others, on the contrary, succeeded to create the most slippery surfacing on which no dirt, no germ or anything else can hang.
What if these adhesion and slip superpowers created by the living world could enable us to innovate? Materials that “bind” or “repel” are essential and have always been a part of our fundamental needs. More and more scientists, designers and entrepreneurs draw inspiration from fauna and flora to create cheaper, more efficient and more sustainable sticky or slippery materials and surfacing than the ones currently used.10/05/2023
