Page 73 - Biomimetics: Technology Imitates Nature

Harun Yahya

Scientists and engineers have built
several robots based on the sonar de-
signs in nature. One of these, the ro-
bot named “koala,” constructed by the
K-Team Company, has six sonar units
and was designed for remote-control
exploration purposes.

Roman Kuc new environments. An
electrical engineering pro-
fessor Roman Kuc
equipped the robot with a
sonar system imitating the
one used by dolphins.
Professor Kuc, who spent
10 years working on ultra-
sound sensors and robot-
ics research, admitted, “We decided to take a closer look at how echolocation is
used in nature to see if we might be missing something.” 57
Imagine that someone told you that under the sea, sound waves
travel at 1,500 meters a second; then asked you to calculate, if your sub-
marine sent out sound waves that came back in four seconds’ time, how
far away was the object that reflected them.
You would calculate that you were three kilometers away. Dolphins
are also capable of comfortably performing similar calculations, but they
know neither the speed at which their sound waves travel through the
water, nor how to multiply and divide. They don’t carry out any of these
functions; all the animals do is behave the way God inspires them.

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