What Does Bionic Mean?

Bionics or biologically inspired engineering is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.

What makes something bionic?

Something that's bionic is artificial but made to work as if it were real. ... In medicine, bionic devices are used to replace missing or failing body parts. These are different from prostheses, or artificial limbs, because they copy exactly (or even exceed) the biology of the original part.

What is an example of bionic?

Examples of bionics in engineering include the hulls of boats imitating the thick skin of dolphins; sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating animal echolocation. In the field of computer science, the study of bionics has produced artificial neurons, artificial neural networks, and swarm intelligence.