Space designs from ants and squirrels

The future of space exploration could lie in biomimetics, where engineering meets biology. In effect, it steals nature's evolutionary tricks to create revolutionary applications.

Engineers like Dr Alex Ellery, head of the Robotics Research Group at the University of Surrey, are trying to find out how natural systems might inspire human-made technology in space.

(Via Vortex Egg.)

I'm imagining a future where the machinery slithers, rustles and oozes.