Engineer creates living furniture: The table that walks to you

Giliam de Carpentier, a programmer at Guerrilla Games, built a 12-legged coffee table that walks liked a scuttling crab. It's called the Carpentopod, and its legs were evolved than directly designed.
He writes:
'The Carpentopod leg linkage itself was generated by some software I wrote that evolved thousands of virtual generations of leg variations by having them compete against each other. — Read the rest
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