Wriggling abiotic worm manifests "intelligent life" rudiment

STORY: Wriggling abiotic worm manifests "intelligent life" rudiment DATELINE: June 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:42 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: various of MetaWorm STORYLINE: MetaWorm, a simulation model of a roundworm, was unveiled at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) Conference 2022 on Tuesday. When stimulated by food signals, MetaWorm wriggles its body forward like a living worm. It mimics the 96 muscles and 302 neurons that compose the one-millimeter-long soft body of Caenorhabditis elegans, a type of roundworm. Developed by BAAI, MetaWorm can smell and move under the high-precision simulations of 106 neurons which are relevant to the dynamic mechanism. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing. (XHTV)

red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

A red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) is seen in Vystaviste Flora Olomouc exhibition center, on September 3, 2019, in Olomouc, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ludek Perina)

red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

A red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) is seen in Vystaviste Flora Olomouc exhibition center, on September 3, 2019, in Olomouc, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ludek Perina)

Flowering annuals in Dendrological Garden in Pruhonice

Flowering annuals in Dendrological Garden in Pruhonice

Kvetouci ostalky Zinnia elegans v letnickovem zahonu -- Flowering zinnias in annual flower bed, Czech Republic on 19th July 2018 (CTK Photo Kiesenbauer Zdenek)