Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a new robot inspired by one of the most intelligent aquatic animals on Earth: the octopus. This robot, presented in a paper ...

potentially allowing information to travel in complex patterns without involving the central nervous system. Why Octopus Arms Can React Without the Brain Each octopus arm operates semi ...

The long arm of the octopus is a wonderful thing ... And there’s no standard pattern as to which arm moves when. How does it do it? The research suggests that the central brain just picks ...

at least two of the four INCs extend into the body of the octopus, where they bypass the two adjacent arms and merge with the INC of the third arm over. This pattern means that all the arms are ...

This design, described in detail in a new study out Monday in the journal PNAS, is inspired by the octopus arm, and mimics how ... with a kresling origami pattern, a style of origami that twists ...

That was surprising, because the changing color patterns on an ... it's got these scalloped edges between each arm," says Scheel, adding that the octopus would also stand very tall and turn ...

Research describes a computational model that captures the intricate muscular architecture of an octopus arm. Mechanical engineering ... simple muscle contraction patterns. The researchers have ...

Each arm gathers sensory information to drive its ... The researchers investigated the anatomy of young Octopus bimaculoides, which are the size of “a big Tic Tac,” says study lead author ...

This looks as if this could be a photo of the interior of your great-aunt’s knitting basket – but it’s actually a cross section through the arm of an octopus. The intricate neural and muscular ...

These alternating patterns mark two distinct stages of the octopus sleep cycle ... slow movements of their suckers and arm tips. Periods of quiet sleep can last from a few minutes to about ...

As the team explained: “Dr. Christine Huffard, one of Caldwell’s former graduate students, led a study on the unique body patterns of Wunderpus photogenicus, an Indo-Pacific octopus species.