I imagine that the neurological circuits underlying these processes are governed by both 2d spacing maps with their brains as…
Cockroaches often choose to have head on collisions with obstacles with vertical walls they mean to traverse in order to maintain top speed. They do this as opposed to avoiding a collisions to have a clean transitions up the wall and not perform any destructive acts. As coackroaches move so fast they use their head much like a bumper car bumper to help them transition to moving up the wall. In this discovery the team created a robot from animal and human materials that replicated this behavior by following collision models that were created. This robot showed that using a robot’s exoskeleton and body it can bring load away from things that are doing fast and quick actuation and sensing and simplify systems.
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to reduce the impact of car accidents, it may be possible to study the force diverting physics of cockroaches to try and mimic them in cars. by diverting the force of the car and spreading out the energy over a longer distance, that energy is taken away from the passengers and reduces the chance of injury or death.