Bio problems/solutions applied to non bio problems/solutions

Good examples of using bio-algorithms that have been successfully applied to non bio problems have been used for centuries. An example of one hundreds of years ago, Using the algorithms developed from the observations of the flight of birds was used to Leonardo to design human powered parachutes and helicopters and a fanciful aircraft design using the motion of wings, over 70 years ago the echolocation of bats applied to locating structures/objects underwater for navigation.

More recent examples (the last 20 years) are provided in a survey published in Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 3810903, 16 pages

Review Article

Bioinspired Intelligent Algorithm and Its Applications for Mobile Robot Control: A Survey

Jianjun Ni,1,2 Liuying Wu,1 Xinnan Fan,1,2 and Simon X. Yang3

They go so far as to propose a structured approach limited to organizing bio-algorithm problem/solutions applied to non bio algorithm problems/solutions.

I propose a second chart could be populated with similar organization in which non bio technical problems/solutions are applied to bio problems.