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Animals and plants have evolved a large variety of reliable and relatively simple mechanisms. Complexity is an emergent property. Using modern analytical techniques of molecular and materials science we can understand many of these mechanisms and incorporate them into our own technology, The examples chosen are insect mechanoreceptors, fibrous elastic materials, hydratable gels contained within stiff membranes for producing high forces, turgor and spring mechanisms in plants, leaf origami, the nematocyst, rip-stop skin, self-designing trees and wound?healing in plants.