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Mechanisms as minds: Creating a tensegrity robot that can move |
May 14, 2014
Before a signal even reaches your brain, your fingers can adjust the tension required to lift an object with their tendons. It's a mechanism (fingers) acting as a mind -- a phenomenon called morphological computation that scientists are exploring with tensegrity robots.
Link: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/computer_science/~3/93Fq2mlpljc/140513091113.htm
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