BiACE • Bioinspired Artificial Creativity Engine
Extinct.
A creature failed. After 47 million years of evolution, it couldn’t adapt to a 2-degree temperature shift. But before it died, it solved seventeen engineering problems you’re still struggling with. Thermal regulation through counter-current heat exchange. Structural integrity at 1/50th the weight of steel. Self-assembling hierarchical composites.
BiACE harvests IP from evolution’s entire catalog—the successes that survived and the failures that almost did. Every extinction is a boundary condition. Every survivor is a proven specification. Together, they map the complete solution space.
Simulating life's genius
Back to the future of innovation
The heart cockle didn’t just evolve fiber optics. It solved them under the constraints of calcium carbonate crystallography, symbiotic photosynthesis requirements, and predator-proof shell mechanics. These constraints are your product specifications.
We don’t do biomimicry. We reverse-engineer evolutionary pressure into engineering specifications that blur the line between biology, technology and design. Strip your problem to first principles. Find where evolution faced the same physics. Extract the solution. File the patent.
What science discovered.
What BiACE would translate.
Fiber-optic shells. Heart cockles transmit sunlight through shell using bundled aragonite «cables» and condensing microlenses (Nature Communications, 2024). BiACE would engineer thin endoscope optics via microlens-to-light-pipe coupling tolerances.
UV de-glint nanocoats. Leafhopper brochosomes reduce surface reflectance—especially in UV (eLife, 2025). Hollow, soccer-ball-like particles with through-holes drive low-pass antireflection. BiACE would engineer outdoor-vision coatings via hollow-particle pitch/porosity tuned to cut UV glare while preserving visible detail.
Polarization vision. Mantis shrimp see color and polarization with up to 16 photoreceptor types. Color-polarization sensors reveal tissue micro-order; polarization-aided endoscopy shown in preclinical/ex-vivo models (JBO, 2014). BiACE would engineer single-chip endoscopy modules via pixel-level analyzer stacks for flat-lesion contrast.
Self-repairing interfaces. Silk-fibroin hydrogels self-heal via reversible β-sheet networks; MXene-protein adhesives show adhesion and conductivity. BiACE would engineer composite interfaces via β-sheet network design + MXene bridging for crack-closure and damage sensing.
Alveolar heat exchange. Interlaced hollow «alveolar» lattices raise heat transfer at controlled pressure drop (Energy, 2025). BiACE would engineer EV battery cold-plates via alveolar unit-cell manifolding tuned to pack Reynolds regimes.
Resilient optics. Scallop eyes focus with tiled guanine mirrors (Science); heart cockles couple microlenses to fiber-like bundles (Nat. Commun.); brochosomes knock down UV glint (eLife). BiACE would engineer spray-edge drone cameras via mirror objectives + UV de-glint skins + lens-to-light-pipe coupling tolerances.
The pipeline.
- You describe your problem.
- We identify the biophysics.
- BiACE finds where evolution solved it.
- We translate biology to blueprints.
- You own the IP.
New inventions subject to novelty & prior-art outcomes.
Days, not years.
Research Network
Archetype AI (Newton Platform: multimodal AI for plant stress detection) • Universidad de Murcia (phytohormone research for crop biostimulation) • The Next Pangea (bio-inspired R&D acceleration with ArcelorMittal) • Edmund Mach Institute (facility developing biological pesticide alternatives) • Nucaps Nanotechnology (nanocarrier encapsulation for food and pharma) • FIO Fernández-Vega (corneal regeneration and ocular biomechanics) • Taxus Medioambiente (eDNA biodiversity monitoring techniques) • TECNALIA Ventures (biomimetic startup incubation) • MINTLab (plant cognition research for bio-inspired robotics)