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Humanoids are the main thing that comes to mind when we talk about robots with intelligence. Although it is the ultimate goal, it is not the only form of intelligence on Earth. Other animals, such as insects, have their own kind of intelligence, and due to being relatively simpler compared to humans, they are a very good place to begin with.

Rodney Brooks has a famous argument that says it took the evolution much longer to create insects from scratch than getting to human‐level intelligence from there. Consequently, he suggested that these simpler biorobotics should be first dealt with in the road to make much more complex ones. Genghis, a six‐legged walking robot [24], is one of his contributions to this field.

This line of thought was a fundamental change and led researchers to have a change of direction in their work, and with that came attention to new domains and topics such as robotics, locomotion, artificial life, bioinspired systems, and so on. The classical approach did not care about tasks related to the interaction with the real world, and consequently, this journey is started by locomotion and grasping.