As the next phase in his plan to create a water$-$collection device inspired by the lizard, Parker sent his observations and experimental results to Michael Rubner and Robert Cohen, two colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On the one hand, Parker is full of inspiration and enthusiasm about the many possibilities of biomimetics. On the other hand, Rubner and Cohen are much more practical and focus on the ideas that actually have a chance of being applied successfully. This combination of biological insight and engineering pragmatism is vital to success in biomimetics and has led to several promising technologies.

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