We describe the design of Zooids, an open-source open-hardware platform for developing tabletop swarm interfaces. The platform consists of a collection of custom-designed wheeled micro robots each 2.6 ...

A siphonophore (order Siphonophorae) is a colony of genetically identical polyps, or zooids, that acts like one organism. Each zooid performs a function essential to the survival of the whole ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have ...

This Swarm Of Little Robots Is A Totally New Kind Of Interface They're called Zooids, and they could replace many of the screens in your life. Fastcompany.com adheres to NewsGuard’s nine ...

These creatures are not just single organisms but rather a colony of specialized, self-replicating units called zooids, which work together as a single entity. Virmani described the image of the ...

Related: Watch hypnotizing footage of mysterious deep-sea worm dancing in the twilight zone Flying spaghetti monsters are colonial organisms made up of thousands of multicellular "zooids" that ...

On a microscopic level, Conservationists noted that individual bryozoans - zooids - look like anemones as their organs are in ...

Detecting danger is key to the survival and success of all species. Animal nervous and immune systems cooperate to optimize danger detection. Preceding studies have highlighted the benefits of ...

Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish. Not only is it not a jellyfish, it's not even an "it," but a "they." The ...

Attached to the nectosome is the siphosome, or main stem, with numerous iterative units - the cormidia – along its length. A cormidium contains zooids for feeding (gastrozooids), others for buoyancy ...

Another fascinating aspect of bryozoans is their prehistoric origins. "Marine bryozoans can be found in the fossil record dating back more than 400 million years—it's amazing that we can still ...