Bioinspiration Lab

Inspired by the Sea

Developing technologies and techniques to explore mysteries of the deep sea for bio-inspired design.

Kakani Katija, Principal Engineer

Research Themes

Effective and elegant: New research reveals swimming mechanics of the gossamer worm

September 28, 2021

September 28, 2021 – New research by MBARI and collaborators at the Smithsonian reveals how the gossamer worm achieves its effective and elegant swimming.

Bringing the laboratory to the ocean

January 31, 2018

To bring the laboratory into the ocean, we develop less-invasive techniques to understand biological-physical interactions by furthering fine-scale measurements of organismal behavior and their physical and chemical environments.

Bringing the ocean to the laboratory

February 9, 2018

To bring the ocean into the laboratory, we employ both cutting edge and commonly used diagnostic techniques in engineering to study biological and physical processes in more detail.

Bio-inspired ocean exploration technologies

February 9, 2018

The lessons that we learn during in situ and laboratory studies can be used to improve ocean technology that advances exploration and discovery.

FathomNet

November 26, 2019

To bring the ocean into the laboratory, we employ both cutting edge and commonly used diagnostic techniques in engineering to study biological and physical processes in more detail.