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Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava1, Vikramaditya G Yadav2
1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Trends in Biotechnology
|December 12, 2017
Abstract:
Bio-inspired engineering applies biological design principles towards developing engineering solutions but is not practical as a manufacturing paradigm. We advocate 'bionic manufacturing', a synergistic fusion of biotic and abiotic components, to transition away from bio-inspiration toward bio-augmentation to address current limitations in bio-inspired manufacturing.

