https://media.eurekalert.org/multimedia_prod/pub/media/218087_web.mp4 This video illustrates the role of the association process in devising a locomotive robot that ”learns” to walk by irradiation. The LCN-based robot is initially sensitive to heat to allow bending and locomotion only by thermal pulses but is insensitive to light yet becomes light-active after associating the two stimuli. Under temporally modulated irradiation, … Continue reading This thermoplastic is learning a new trick: Walking