Presumably this is supposed to get more emotions across because the robot mimics head and arm motions, acting all exasperated when you're exasperated and tilting its head like Forrest Gump and his son when you're confused.
After the behavioral tests were concluded (M-2: 31–35 h after landing; M-3: 14–18 h after landing), the snail's nervous system was isolated and prepared for electrophysiological studies of the statocyst response to tilt mimicking the "head down" and the "tail down" behavioral conditions.
Continuing with the same example, the whole class says "Becca" and mimics my head roll.
Development of animal models and the use of direct electrical, mechanical or chemical irritants stimulus (capsaicin, carrageenan and blood) have been used to mimic vascular head pain [10 13].
The moth lives in Africa, southern Europe and the Middle-East, and some experts have suggested its skull-like mark could mimic the head of a bee to help it raid honeybee colonies.
Marley Marotta, the art director of a new Trada customer, SpiritHoods, which makes elaborate faux fur hoods mimicking animal heads, says he's willing to spend $25 in Google adwords to get a new online customer, a fair margin for a $130 piece of headware.
At the end of our four-hour hike, Remo pounced into a dense roadside thicket to catch a scarce swallowtail, a butterfly noted for its brilliant blue and gold tail whose design mimics the head of a distasteful insect to ward off predators.
The significance of the eye appearance among fish is further supported by the presence of caudal eyespots that mimics the head and masks the tail which reduced tail fin predation (Winemiller, 1990).
And yet Beale could flash into sudden liveliness: when he talked of hawks, he suggested – without exactly mimicking – the cocked head of a bird of prey.
When she was not given the umbrella, she then picked up a leaf and held it over her head, mimicking the person holding the umbrella.
When Yes performed a live version of "Yours is No Disgrace" for the German television series Beat-Club in April 1971, footage of the band was combined with that of another mannequin head, mimicking the cover's concept.
