This robot, presented in a paper published on the arXiv pre-print server, could be used both to complete real-world tasks ...

The octobot is the world’s first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot. It is free of wires, batteries, and any hard material—like its namesake, the octopus, which has no internal ...

The team then began to build robots that mimic those motions. Prototype by prototype, they created an artificial tentacle with internal springs and wires that mirrored an octopus’s muscles, until the ...

In a camouflaging clip from the BBC/PBS series Spy in the Ocean narrated by David Tennant, a robotic spy octopus by John Downer Productions sat on the ocean floor in the company of a real octopus ...

Inspired by nature’s most adaptable creatures, SpiRobs is a new kind of soft robot developed by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China. Unlike traditional robotic arms that ...

Though a landlubber may say the robots look more like a stumpy octopus than a jellyfish, according to the paper the shape is actually most similar to a juvenile “ephyra stage” moon jellyfish ...

A team of scientists and engineers at Harvard University have built the first entirely soft, autonomous robot. The aptly named Octobot was built using 3D printing, molding, and soft lithography ...

Its body is modeled on the octopus and is composed of all soft body parts that were made using a combination of 3D printing, molding and soft lithography. Two sets of arms on either side of the ...

From underwater adhesives to camouflage to suction cups, we have learned a lot from the octopus. Recently, researchers in Singapore built an underwater robot based on an octopus. This robot has ...

Lately, it seems like the versatile, grip-anything capabilities of octopus tentacles are popping up all over the tech world, from this robotic gripper to surgical tools modeled after cephalopods.