Octopus-inspired robotic arm with a 95% task success rate is part of a game-changing, new class of 3D-printed soft robots ...

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 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 ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world ... not growing. Mating happens at arm’s length for the four species of these cephalopods. The tiny male detaches its hectocotylus ...

The paper, which made the cover, describes an unprecedented computational model that captures the intricate muscular architecture of an octopus arm. The model is in turn used to explain how ...

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 ...

As his last act, the small but mighty paterfamilias gives an arm and a life to the cause of reproduction. This species of octopus is also known as the paper nautilus (the shell it builds to hold ...