The 4th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE’13) was held in Nanjing on August 14-16, 2013. The conference was organized by the International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE) and sponsored by Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Jilin University, National Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology, and Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, whose representatives attended the opening ceremony and addressed. ICBE’13 intends to bring together researchers and scholars in the academic field from around the world to share their research experience and explore research collaboration in the fields of bionic engineering.

 

 

In addition, nearly 300 representatives from 20 countries attended the conference, respectively from Britain, America, Canada, Australia, Austria, Japan, South Korea and China among others. The representatives showed their latest academic achievements on bionic engineering and exchanged their points of view on several topics such as biomimetic surface, biomimetic materials, biomechanics, robotics, motion systems, and artificial intelligence.

The First Bionic Engineering Award Ceremony was held at the opening ceremony of the conference as well. Prof. MinJun Kim from Drexel University (US) and Prof. Feng Zhou from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (China) got the Outstanding Contribution Award and Outstanding Youth Award respectively. The meeting of the Executive Board of Directors of ISBE and the meeting of the 10th Anniversary of the Journal of Bionic Engineering (JBE) were also held during the conference.

 

 

 

The great success of ICBE’13 not only expressed the current research achievements on Bionic Engineering but also offered a platform for representatives to communicate and cooperate with each other. It will greatly push forward the development of bionic engineering worldwide.