《仿生科学与工程专业英语》教材以仿生学原理及其多学科应用方向为基础，参考国外原版课程素材和国际高水平学术期刊论文，系统介绍仿生相关学会组织与机构、仿生设计原则与方法、运动仿生学、仿生材料、仿生机械、仿生健康和仿生智能等内容。本教材面向国家建设现代化教育强国的战略需求，落实立德树人根本任务，通过提高仿生科学与工程专业领域的语言知识水平及综合运用能力，强化提升学生的国际视野和综合素养，培养学生成为我国强有力参与仿生科技领域国际事务与国际竞争、建设现代化科技强国的优秀人才。
本教材不仅适用于仿生科学与工程专业本科生教学，也可作为该专业硕博研究生专业英语的参考用书，还可作为材料科学与工程、机械设计、人工智能等多学科专业英语教学和自学参考用书。

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Features of English for Special Purposes
1.2 Introduction to Bionics
1.2.1 Learning from Nature
1.2.2 Terms and Definitions
1.3 Professional Organizations/Institutions
1.3.1 The Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education) of Jilin University (KLBE)
1.3.2 The International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE)
1.3.3 Bionics International (BIN)
1.3.4 The Laboratory of Bionics Engineering of the University of Seville (LBE)
1.3.5 The Bionics Engineering Lab of the University of Utah (BEL)
1.3.6 The Center for Extreme Bionics (CEB)
1.3.7 Biomimicry Institute (BI)
1.3.8 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Key vocabularies
Exercises
Chapter 2 Fundamentals and Principles of Bionics
2.1 Two Strategic Approaches of Bionics
2.2 Design Paradigms
2.2.1 Problem-Driven BID
2.2.2 Solution-Driven BID
2.2.3 Biomimicry
Key vocabularies
Exercises
Chapter 3 Enhance the Success of Biomimetic Programs
3.1 Biomimetic Approaches to Engineering Designs May be Suboptimal
3.2 Cases of Evaluation of Bionic Design
3.2.1 Designing Reversible Adhesives Based on Gecko Toe Pads
3.2.2 Development of High Performance Materials Based on Spider Dragline Silk
3.2.3 Worms Show Way to Efficiently Move Soil
3.3 Pathway to Enhanced Outcomes
3.3.1 Specification of the Target Function(s)
3.3.2 Choice of Model
3.3.3 Extraction of Working Principles
3.3.4 Designing Prototypes
3.3.5 Testing Prototypes
Key vocabularies
Exercises
Chapter 4 Biomimetics of Motion
4.1 Biomimics for Adaptivity
4.1.1 Micro and Macro
4.1.2 Adaptivity through Disassembly
4.1.3 Adaptivity through Motion
4.2 Motion versus Change
4.2.1 Motion as Change on a Specific Time-scale
4.2.2 Tropic and Nastic Movements
4.2.3 Locomotion
4.3 Case Studies of Motion in Nature
4.3.1 Plants and Seeds
4.3.2 Soft-Bodied Systems
4.3.3 Rigid Systems
Key vocabularies
Exercises
Chapter 5 Bioinspired Materials
5.1 Background
5.1.1 Box 1 | Essentials of mechanical properties
5.1.2 Box 2 | Common design motifs of natural structural materials
5.2 Structure and Properties of Natural Materials
5.3 Methods of Processing Hierarchical Materials
5.4 Looking Ahead
Key vocabularies
Exercises
Chapter 6 Bioinspired Robots
6.1 Bioinspired Morphologies
6.2 Bioinspired Sensors
6.2.1 Vision
6.2.2 Audition
6.2.3 Touch
6.2.4 Smell
6.2.5 Taste
6.3 Bioinspired Actuators
6.4 Bioinspired Control Architectures
6.4.1 Behavior-based Robotics
6.4.2 Learning Robotics
Key vocabularies
Exercises
Chapter 7 Artificial Intelligence
7.1 Introduction to AI
7.2 Achieving AI
7.3 Machine Learning
7.3.1 Supervised Learning
7.3.2 Unsupervised Learning
7.3.3 Semi Supervised Learning
7.3.4 Reinforcement Learning
7.4 Challenges for AI
7.5 Application Areas of AI
7.5.1 Robots and Telemedicine
7.5.2 Education
Key vocabularies
Exercises
References