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 ...

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 ...

Each octopus arm has a massive nervous system, with more neurons combined across the eight arms than in the animal's brain. These neurons are concentrated in a large axial nerve cord (ANC), which ...

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 ...

And, of course, each arm is studded with suckers, all of which an octopus can control independently—to the extent of changing individual suckers’ shape as required—and all of which can also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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