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 ...

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 ...

Man is compared to a thinking reed, “ashi” in Japanese while the humble octopus is often likened to thinking legs, also “ashi” in Japanese, due to its cleverness. The octopus has eight limbs.