Aug 15, 2016 · It’s fun to imagine how an advanced robot octopus with eight dexterous arms could perform in the wild.

Feb 27, 2020 · Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Beihang University have developed an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm …

Oct 1, 2013 · A group at Harvard University has developed a four-legged octopus-inspired robot that can inch along on land and even (slowly) color camouflage.

Nov 29, 2023 · Octopuses can whip their soft arms with a characteristic “bend propagation” motion to capture prey with sensitive suckers. This relatively simple strategy provides models …

Dec 8, 2016 · According to the Harvard researchers who created it, it’s the first soft robot that is completely self-contained. It has no hard electronic components—no batteries or computer …

The Octobot is the first entirely soft, autonomous robot. It is made by a combination of embedded 3D printing, modeling, and soft lithography. Inspired by real octopuses, the Octobot has no …

Banish your preconceptions of robots as stiff, herky-jerky metal machines. An “octobot” less than three inches wide is changing the robotics landscape. The octobot is the world’s first completely...

Aug 31, 2016 · A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.

Feb 27, 2020 · Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and colleagues from …

Nov 29, 2023 · Mimicking the snatch and grab of an octopus snaring its prey required a new way of thinking about robotics. A soft robotic tentacle inspired by octopuses can grasp small …