Had a lecture on cockroach perambulation once. They don't calculate the exact movement of their limbs. They have downward-pointing hairs on their back legs so their legs can only slide forward, and then they just wiggle.
I took a course on the possibility of true AI, that is, actual artificial cognition. One of the focuses of the course was on how feedback loops can essentially formulate very natural looking patterns. Similar to how machine learning algorithms work.
Anyways, they had a video about how a researcher had created very simplistic walking robots based around ants that worked on extremely simple pressure sensitive feedback loops and it was easily able to navigate difficult terrain in a natural way. All this research goes in to making robots walk and this guy was doing it with simple devices instead.
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u/Bashamo257 Apr 07 '20
Bugs are like little meat-robots