Recently the European Project Octopus shared images showing the progress of a project rather than particular, while many organizations try to create humanoid robots they want to create an octopus-shaped. This is an organization that is trying to understand how the movements of the octopus to recreate in soft-bodied robots octopuses that can reach places that would be unattainable with other techniques.



According to developers, the octopus can do extreme maneuvers in speed and accuracy to justify the hours of research. Mainly get that with his intelligence and lack of bone restricting the movements your body.

The robotic octopus has, like his counterpart wild, 8 limbs, but with the peculiarity that two of them are made ​​of materials with memory, it remembers what the original position and try to recover without the need for any command. The rest of the tentacles are constructed with silicone with a traveling steel cable inside. The movement of these parts is determined by other operating nylon cords by pulling each one of the six lines of steel, in this way is that the octopus can move and get up to manipulate objects.


The video of the robot in action demonstrates a rigid body, but as the developers claim the most complex aspect of the investigation is related to the movement of the tentacles, as we said is still in use with a steel guide.

The project aims to build the first robot completely soft, not rigid skeletons that form a structure. This can address specific needs of different environments, such as winning rescue situations mobility in tight spaces or to navigate sensitive sites that could be damaged under the impact of something hard.

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