Octopus-like robo-arm thinks with its suckers to explore the ocean floor

Robots exploring the ocean floor today use pre-programmed movements, centralized processors, and rigid structures to do their work. But the sea is unpredictable, and that architecture struggles wherever currents shift, visibility drops, or terrain changes without warning. Now, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have taken a very different approach to sidestep all of that – one 500 million years in the making.

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Italian Institute of Technology, Octopus, Biomimicry, ARM