Engineers Learn from Octopus Arms

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An octopus can do something engineers still struggle to copy: control eight soft arms with no bones or fixed joints. Each arm can bend, twist, stretch, shorten, and grasp. A recent robotics study puts this challenge in engineering terms. Researchers trained one robotic controller to guide three octopus-inspired soft arms underwater.1 The study focused on a basic problem—flexible motion works only when sensing, feedback, and… 

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