We're commercializing highly repellent, nature-inspired, liquid-infused coatings here: We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/
I think we had a few copies of this in my high school's jazz band (the director of the movie Whiplash was from the same band). I played the flute so had inch thick folders of handwritten music transposed from the tenor sax or trumpet parts.
I used to think rhetorical devices were just ways to sound fancy, but they can be effective tools for transferring emotion or conveying nuanced concepts from author to reader.
E.g., analogy can be more efficient at this than plain description.
Our tech: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0
What types of pricing do you think would make sense to the robotics community and what types of materials do you typically work with?