Black Starfish Robot Senses and Compensates for Damage.
By Alex in Everything Else on Dec 3, 2006 at 1:04 pm

Meet Black Starfish, a robot created by Josh Bongard, Victor Zykov, and Hod Lipson of Cornell University. What’s different about this robot is that it can "sense" a damaged limb and then compensate (i.e. develop a new model of locomotion) to keep on walkin’






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