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'Odd' objects excel at navigating challenging terrains without central control

Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism.
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Riding Weird Brakeless Wooden Carts on Major Freeway..

In this episode on Tekniq, let us witness the production line of a handmade cart and its application down a hilly road running on only gravity, the logistics of wooden logs using motorcycles. followed ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Scientists create ‘odd’ objects that adapt and move over obstacles

Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and ...
Nanowerk

'Odd' objects that adapt and move without a brain (w/video)

'Odd' objects that adapt and move without a brain (w/video) Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists have constructed 'odd' objects that ...
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‘Odd’ objects that adapt and move without a brain

Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists at the University of Amsterdam have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle ...