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Surfaces of natural living subjects serve as the interface between subjects and their diverse environments. Millions of years of continuous combat between living subjects and adverse environment conditions have forced continuous surface evolution, resulting in robust surfaces with unique functional properties that aid in adaption and survival. These superior functional properties include adhesion, hydrophobicity, self-cleaning, static and dynamic optical responses, antibiofouling, hydrodynamic character, hardness, toughness, wear resistance, energy scavenging and sensing and actuation. These superior surface properties are enabled using clever combinations of design parameters including texture, topography, scale, chemistry, sensory system, and complementary subsurface shapes at multiple scales along with their hierarchical assemblies. Production industries have extensively tapped into this natural intelligence to design and apply functional properties to deliver advanced products. Modern manufacturing processes using bottom up top down, and hybrid approaches have been applied to deliver multifunctional products summarized. There is a growing trend to integrate natural intelligence into manufactured multifunctional surfaces and related products. This approach not only enables multifunctionality, but also provides the ability to deliver more products while using fewer resources therefore enabling more sustainable manufacturing and production In the years to come, understanding reliability, reproducibility and repetability of manufacturing and performance of bio-inspired surfaces, and comparison of those with their natural counter parts will be an important area of scientific and engineering endeavor. Also developing understanding of bio-inspired functional surface architectures on productivity of sub-systems and systems qualitative as well as quantative, along with producibility and predictability will be vital for maturation of this field.