Your comment reminded me (for some reason) of Robert Full's 2002 TED Talk about embedding computation in the structure and material properties of a robot legs.

Your comment reminded me (for some reason) of Robert Full's 2002 TED Talk about embedding computation in the structure and material properties of a robot legs. http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.html http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evol...