Reminds me of Genghis [1], the granddaddy of walking insect-bots made by Rodnay Brooks back in 1989. Brooks' robot had a vary cool approach to learning to walk where he "removed all cognition processors from Genghis and left only the sensors and the code/hardware to allow it to walk"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_(robot)