RealFeedApp Octopuses navigate tight gaps using flexible limbs
A study found that the octopus's lack of a rigid skeleton allows extreme body deformation to navigate tight apertures, offering a biological solution for robotics challenges.
- Field
- robotics
- What they did
- Researchers studied how octopuses use the softness of their body and the flexibility of their limbs to pass through narrow holes, overcoming the limitations of their hard beak.
- Why it matters
- This information is useful to robotics engineers, as octopuses provide a biological model for solving the problem of moving robots in tight spaces without a rigid skeleton.
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