Soon, a flexible octopus-like robot could be completely free of wires or internal electronics. Engineers at Rice University have unveiled a new soft robotic arm controlled by laser beams.

They found that while each octopus arm can perform all types of movements, there is a clear division of functional roles among them. The forearms are responsible for exploring and sensing the ...

Wild octopus arm movements reveal extraordinary control, offering insights that may transform robotics design and lifesaving ...

For the first time, engineers have digitally recreated the complex muscular architecture of the octopus arm and its unique movements, which opens the door to developing soft robotics with ...

Octopuses, renowned for their intelligence and unique arm dexterity, are inspiring robotics innovation. Researchers have ...

A soft robotic arm, based on an octopus arm, might be able to get food, water or a cell phone down to someone trapped under ...

A team from the University of Bristol’s Faculty of Science and Engineering has developed a simple yet ingenious robot that uses fluid flows—of air or water—to coordinate suction and movement, much ...

Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. How these animals achieve such a wide range of ...

Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have unveiled a innovative adaptive robot suction mechanism that draws inspiration from the biological structures of octopus suckers. This robot octopus ...

Octopus arms perform thousands of precise actions using just four basic movements, offering lessons for soft robotics, prosthetics, and medicine.

Octopuses and their arms are a bit of a mystery.  Not because scientists don’t know how they work; they’re boneless ...

Today's robots may not be the hospitable humanoids or shape-shifting Autobots of past imagination, but engineers are well on their way to producing machines that can walk, swim, crawl and climb as ...