But some part of running requires vision since you must see obstacles and plan your footings. More the bigger and more fragile you are. So there would need to be another set of eyes and some basic processing then as well. And then, what about 3d perception, moving obstacles, predator recognition? You have to know what's just tall grass and what's a rock.
You'd be better off moving the brain down and just having a really long mouth / snout / tongue. And then you'd have an elephant...
You can only have very basic processing near the actual actuator.
But why couldn't you have specialized processing... "brains"... near the sensors, and then have these send a simple binary signal back to some central "ok this is what we'll do"-brain?
You'd be better off moving the brain down and just having a really long mouth / snout / tongue. And then you'd have an elephant...
You can only have very basic processing near the actual actuator.