Daily Reminder - Do I Have To Keep Saying It?

The mating of the octopus with robotic science will lead to nothing but hardship and chaos. I would say proceed with caution but those eggheads never listen and next thing you know giant robot octopus are ruling the planet.

 

The octopus is a natural escape artist. It can squeeze its soft body into impossibly tight spaces and often baffles aquarium workers with its ability to break out of tanks. These abilities could be very useful in an underwater robot, which is why the OCTOPUS Project, a consortium of European robotics labs, is attempting to reverse engineer it in all its tentacled glory. Now researchers from the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), in Hellas, Greece are learning how the robot might use its tentacles to swim.