This robot is an amoeba robot.

And we're finding amoebas like this. This is the amoeba dubia.

It may turn out to be something that looks a little like that amoeba.

Amoeba is a distributed operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and others at the Vrije Universiteit.

If you look at the hexagon, for instance, it's like an amoeba, which is constantly changing its own profile.

We started off as a teeny, teeny little one celled amoeba, tiny, just sticking onto a rock, and now, voila, the brain.

We also have been working with some scientists and engineers from UPenn to come up with a chemically actuated version of this amoeba robot.

Blobitecture from blob architecture, blobism or blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba shaped, building form.

We also have been working with some scientists and engineers from UPenn to come up with a chemically actuated version of this amoeba robot.

The aim of the Amoeba project was to build a timesharing system that makes an entire network of computers appear to the user as a single machine.

And the amoeba dubia doesn't look like much, except that each of you has about 3.2 billion letters, which is what makes you you, as far as gene code inside each of your cells, and this little amoeba which, you know, sits in water in hundreds and millions and billions, turns out to have 620 billion base pairs of gene code inside.

It actually gives it that physical structure. If a cell were to move around that's going to have to be like an amoeba that's going to do with a cytoskeleton as well.

This animal is the size of a paramecium and an amoeba, and it has a brain of 7,000 neurons that's so small you know these things called cell bodies you've been hearing about, where the nucleus of the neuron is?

This draws set of animating, transparent, amoeba like blobs. The blobs change shape as they wander around the screen, and they are translucent, so you can see the lower blobs through the higher ones, and when one passes over another, their colors merge. I got the idea for this from a mouse pad I had once, which achieved the same kind of effect in real life by having several layers of plastic with colored oil between them. Written by Jamie Zawinski 1997.