{"id":214055,"date":"2025-05-14T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/handy-octopus-robot-can-adapt-to-its-surroundings"},"modified":"2025-05-14T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:04:47","slug":"handy-octopus-robot-can-adapt-to-its-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/handy-octopus-robot-can-adapt-to-its-surroundings","title":{"rendered":"Handy octopus robot can adapt to its surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/handy-octopus-robot-can-adapt-to-its-surroundings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists inspired by the octopus\u2019s nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its environment.<\/p>\n<p>The team from the University of Bristol\u2019s Faculty of Science and Engineering designed a simple yet smart robot which uses fluid flows of air or water to coordinate suction and movement as octopuses do with hundreds of suckers and multiple arms.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adr4264\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Robotics<\/i>, shows how a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/soft+robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soft robot<\/a> can use suction flow not just to stick to things, but also to sense its environment and control its own actions\u2014just like an octopus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists inspired by the octopus\u2019s nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its environment. The team from the University of Bristol\u2019s Faculty of Science and Engineering designed a simple yet smart robot which uses fluid flows of air or water to coordinate suction and movement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214055","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}