Ever feel run off your feet? Spare a thought for sea stars, creatures whose movement involves the coordination of hundreds of tiny tube feet to navigate complex environments – despite the lack of a central “brain”.
In other words, it’s as though each foot has a mind of its own. For Kanso Bioinspired Motion Lab, based within the University of Southern California Viterbi Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, sea stars pose an intriguing phenomenon.
Kanso Lab specializes in decoding the flow physics of living systems, often applying those insights to inform developments in robotics. [Read more…] about No brain? No problem. University of Southern California scientists show what robots can learn from sea stars