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This Animal's Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed

The Quanta Podcast

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How to Build a Brain From Mechanical Networks

Magnen precash bull and their collaborators are now looking at whether icoplax might be capable of other kinds of behaviors, or even learning. The researchers are also using some of the principles they covered to build what they call perceptive machines,. robotic systems and smart materials that perform certain tasks without centralized control by exploiting their mechanical properties.

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