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Velcro Bandages and Burrs
The Swiss engineer He formed the same clasping
Georges de Mestral system in an overcoat, which
invented a new buttoning consists of one strip of
system called the Velcro nylon with loops, and
Bandage by imitating burrs another with hooks.
(burdock seeds). Due to the flexibility of the
After spending a great deal loops and curls, the system
of effort in getting rid of attaches and detaches easily,
these parts of plants sticking without wearing out. This is
to his clothes, Mestral why the suits of astronauts
thought to use the are today equipped with
system of these plants Velcro bandages.
in the clothing industry.

Forearm System and Robots Bone Structure and
Many of today’s human arm, which Architectural Structures
industrial can repeatedly and
institutions utilise unceasingly make The porous inner is enlarged. This
machinery instead of the same movement. structure of bones special design of
makes them bones creates both
manpower. Human muscular
resistant to lightness and
Especially popular and skeletal system
pressure, especially durability. Architects
are the robotic arms are taken as a model
that imitate the in the production of at the joints where copy this system in
mechanism of the these robots. the bone structure many structures.