{"id":142145,"date":"2022-07-13T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/underwater-glove-puts-octopus-abilities-on-the-hand-of-humans"},"modified":"2022-07-13T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:23:11","slug":"underwater-glove-puts-octopus-abilities-on-the-hand-of-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/underwater-glove-puts-octopus-abilities-on-the-hand-of-humans","title":{"rendered":"Underwater glove puts octopus\u2019 abilities on the hand of humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZJfNm14taU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech\u2019s Michael Bartlett have developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely gripping objects underwater. Their research was selected for the July 13 cover of Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>Humans aren\u2019t naturally equipped to thrive in an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/underwater+environment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">underwater environment<\/a>. We use tanks to breathe, neoprene suits to protect and warm our bodies, and goggles to see clearly. In such an environment, the human hand also is poorly equipped to hold onto things. Anyone who has tried to hold onto a wriggling fish will testify that underwater objects are difficult to grip with our land-dwelling fingers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are critical times when this becomes a liability,\u201d said Bartlett, an assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering. \u201cNature already has some great solutions, so our team looked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/natural+world\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural world<\/a> for ideas. The octopus became an obvious choice for inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech\u2019s Michael Bartlett have developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely gripping objects underwater. Their research was selected for the July 13 cover of Science Advances. Humans aren\u2019t naturally equipped to thrive in an underwater environment. We use tanks to breathe, neoprene suits to protect and warm our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}