Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Using mechanisms inspired by ...

Over the last few years, Virginia Tech scientists have been looking to the octopus for inspiration to design technologies that can better grip a wide variety of objects in underwater environments.

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

A team of researchers has developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely gripping objects underwater. This is significant because humans aren't naturally equipped to thrive underwater. There ...

A study finds that the gloomy octopus — its real name — is in the small club of animals that toss things at other members of their own species. By Darren Incorvaia It turns out that the urge to hurl ...