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 ...

The octopus is an odd creature. The mollusc's large brain makes it a good problem solver, it has the ability to change color in double quick fashion, can dart off suddenly in a cloud of blackish ink ...

A German company called Festo has unveiled a rather bizarre robotic octopus arm, which could work alongside humans in the future. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or ...

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 ...

The OctopusGripper, from 2017, is shaped like an octopus tentacle and can grasp even delicate objects without breaking them.

‘OctopusGripper’ by Festo is a flexible silicone gripper that uses compressed air and vacuum to grip objects of various shapes and weights.

Every year, engineers from Festo's Bionic Learning Network take a new batch of bio-inspired robots to the Hannover Messe trade fair. Previous highlights have included robotic ants capable of working ...

A German robotics company recently created a machine that uses a mechanical octopus tentacle to complete simple tasks. OctopusGripper, as it’s appropriately named, is capable of picking up, holding, ...

German industrial automation company Festo has created a number of animal-inspired robots in the past, such as kangaroos, herring gulls, ants, and a gripper that mimics the tongue of a chameleon. The ...