Hollywood movies have used giant squids and octopi to inspire underwater nightmares for decades. But Festo, a German company that makes industrial machinery, has realized that an octopus’ amazing ...

Get your head out of the gutter. What you’re looking at is the future of soft robotics — a 3D-printed arm that imitates the complex musculature of an octopus tentacle. The Cornell engineers behind the ...

As a creature with no skeleton that’s composed almost entirely of soft muscle, the octopus is pretty fascinating. It’s extremely agile and can squeeze through the smallest of cracks, turn sharply in ...