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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 ...

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I may not know everything about how the world works, but I know one thing for sure: humans will forever be finding weird little thingamabobs they can't identify and need help from others to figure it ...

'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 ...