Researchers replicate slime mold with brainless amoeboid robot that can move toward an attractant

(PhysOrg.com) -- Takuya Umedachi has been working for several years to build a robot that can replicate the simple actions of the common slime mold, an organism that can move towards something it desires without benefit of a brain or central nervous system. Now Umedachi and his colleagues at Hiroshima University have built such a robot and have published the specifics of how it works in the journal Advanced Robotics.

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