4. Analysis of biomimetic creations

Many technical challenges remain to be solved, challenges that technology seems to be struggling to meet resiliently. Bio-inspiration and its methodological form, biomimetics, aim to take advantage of nature's hindsight in solving the problems it has encountered. This problem-solving is based on the genetic variability of living systems, coupled with the principle of natural selection which, over the course of generations, brings certain characteristics to the fore. This whole process results in a trial-and-error mechanism. This mechanism cannot function without a resource we seem to lack today: time. Without this "time" at our disposal, it therefore seems interesting to try and understand how nature works, with the idea that we could free ourselves from this trial-and-error mechanism and, as illustrated in figure