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Mechatronics and the Imitation of Nature

The author provides a definition of mechatronics. He explains how mechanical engineering design must change to take full advantage of developments in microelectronics and illustrates this by three structural examples. He goes on to show by further examples how mechatronics strengthens an underlying trend in engineering he calls ‘the imitation of nature’ with products which tend increasingly to resemble living creatures.