Otto conducted many research projects for his classes, publications, and theories. One such example is "Biomimetic". You can read more about this subject on the "What is Biomimetic" page. Plus a readable research paper written about technology Utilization.

BIOMIMETIC

Source-Remarks by Otto Schmitt: from which the Mission Statement is quoted and developed.

Since 1935 my scientific efforts, while widely diversified and often multidisciplinary, have almost always had within them an element of what is now being called Bio-mimetic Science and Technology.

I am confident that a major new quantitative life-based science is emerging which directly, rather than indirectly, seeks its algorithmic mathematical foundations, its discoveries and its analogical applications by emulation of life principles accessible to us via perceptive consciousness insight, rather than by second or third generation laundering through conventional physics, chemistry or other physical sciences that often lead us to conflicting and confusing images of thought.

Early applications of this Biomimetic thinking were productive: The cathode (emitter) follower circuit; the differential amplifier; the differentiator and integrator circuits; the computer rotatable three-dimensional stereoscopic cathode ray presentation; the heat pipe; the H transforms and the negative and positive resistance, inductance, capacitive synthesis methods, to name a few.

More recently the theory and application of vector point function Transfer Impedance principles to Vector Cardiology has given us the tools of Stereo-vector-electro-cardiology and so-called focused Bio-electrode arrays. A family of Bio-mimetic sensory transducers, including Thermodes and Filar electrodes, is springing up.