Tufts Professor Barry Trimmer, Ph.D., is known for his neurobiology work with tobacco hornworm caterpillars. Trimmer is intensely interested in replicating the movements of caterpillars in order to create soft-body robots. In his interview with Science Nation, Trimmer explains the value in learning “how the nervous system and the body create those complex movements [made by caterpillars].”
Watch this intriguing explanation of Trimmer’s work below: