Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4th international conference of bionic engineering (icbe’13), august 13–16, 2013, nanjing, china. the 131 papers are grouped as follows: chapter 1: bionic structures; chapter 2: biomechanics; chapter 3: bionic actuator; chapter 4: materials; chapter 5: agricultural, industry application & engineering; chapter 6: biomedical engineering; chapter 7: bio-inspired functional surface; chapter 8: bio-inspired sensor; chapter 9: robotics and artificial intelligence; chapter 10: bio-inspired methods.
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