Figure from ROBOT, Moravec, Oxford, 1998, Chapter 5: The Age of Robots, page 151
Basket starfish

                                                                                                                                       
The basket starfish
A portent of advanced robot bodies.

This figure is derived from an illustration by Richard Ellis found in his book Deep Atlantic, Knopf, 1996, p.151. Marc LeBrun and Kevin Dowling alerted me to pictures of basket stars.