Self-Repairing Technology

That You Tube video is kind of unnerving. But there are other examples of self-repairing technology.

In 2003, a group of researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley are trying to develop web site software that is able to recover rapidly when mishaps occur.

Engineers from Aberdeen, Scotland have invented artificial platelets to plug leaky pipes similar to the way biological platelets work when we get a cut. That is really neat!

Finally, self-healing automotive crash-barrier is under evaluation for use on America's highways. It is already being used at NASCAR pit stops.

I have always thought that if a person is going to invent some device for a certain problem see if nature has not solved the problem already. That is how we got Velcro®. For more examples of solving problems nature's way is the book The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials From Nature by Peter Forbes.