Simon Poppinga and his co-authors have produced simple handcrafted compliant systems based on paper, wood, plastic foil, and/or glue as construction materials in order to abstraction and implementation plant movement principles into biomimetic compliant systems, which are of increasing interest for technical applications. This freely available publication has a high potential for fast, precise, and low-cost abstraction and transfer processes in biomimetic approaches and for the “hands-on understanding” of plant movements in applied university and school courses.

Poppinga S, Schenck P, Speck O, Speck T, Bruchmann B, Masselter T. Self-Actuated Paper and Wood Models: Low-Cost Handcrafted Biomimetic Compliant Systems for Research and Teaching. Biomimetics. 2021; 6(3):42. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics6030042