How To Walk Without A Brain

"How do sea stars monitor and coordinate hundreds of tube feet whilst moving around — and how do they do this without a brain?"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#SeaStar #biomechanics #robotics #Movement #Starfish #Biodiversity https://grrlscientist.medium.com/how-to-walk-without-a-brain-c1fe1b055330

How To Walk Without A Brain

"How do sea stars monitor and coordinate hundreds of tube feet whilst moving around — and how do they do this without a brain?"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#SeaStar #biomechanics #robotics #Movement #Starfish #Biodiversity https://grrlscientist.medium.com/how-to-walk-without-a-brain-c1fe1b055330

TIL overarm swimming technique teaching has competing sects that disagree about the path the hand takes in the power stroke.

There is the Straight Path.
There is the "S" Path.
The extremist Light Globe Path is in Australia - see below.

There are pretend ecumenicalists who have the S path being Straight+BodyRotation.

Stories of Conversions abound as do accounts of Unbelievers losing badly at swim meets.

#Swimming #OverarmSwimming #Religion #Biomechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxALJgQhV9o

https://youtu.be/C2KmcahUZyc

Leopard Walking (1887) Eadweard Muybridge

A leopard walking. Animal Locomotion.

#FilmHistory #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #chronophotography #phénakisticope #collotype #biomechanics #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #zoopraxiscope #zoopraxography #leopard

3-Apr-2026
Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators
A new study compares the bite efficiency of #fossil #reptiles using advanced #engineering #simulations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1122694

#science #ecology #paleontology #biomechanics

Are you doing your #PhD in #sportscience , #biomechanics , #movementscience , #publichealth or #sport #technology ? The @FAU is currently conducting a survey on #ResearchDataManagement.

If you can spare 10 minutes - consider to contribute and help to gain a better understanding on how PhD students collect, store, analyse and publish #data in their #research.

https://www.soscisurvey.de/forschungsdatenmanagement/

#Sportwissenschaft #Forschungsdatenmanagement

🐍🧗 Researchers analyzed how scrub #pythons and brown tree #snakes bridge gaps between perches. They found that these snakes concentrate bending #energy at their base to maintain stability, a finding that could influence future robotic designs.

👉 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-snakes-defy-gravity-to-stand-tall

💁🏻‍♀️✨ The secret design and movement of slithering snakes https://seethis.tv/post/38218729229

#biomechanics #physics #nature #science #biology #research #robotics #animals

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: ⛄🤖 #Disney and #Nvidia teamed up to build this free-roaming, #AI-powered Olaf #robot for #Disneyland #Paris. It uses advanced #engineering to shuffle across uneven ground and magnetic parts that can actually pop off, just like in the #movies.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/olaf-robot-frozen-disneyland-paris?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=olaf-robot-disneyland-paris

#biomechanics #cartoons #computers #cute #design #innovation #news #technology #tech #frozen #animation #tksst #video