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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

'Octobot' Could Save Your Life

'Octobot' Could Save Your Life : Discovery News: "One day a giant robotic octopus might save your life. That’s one of the applications a team of European scientists thinks its robotic octopus could have beyond navigating underwater and grasping objects. Recently they took the first step by creating a robotic octopus arm.

“What we want to copy is not just being soft, but it’s being soft and having the capability of controlling the stiffness,” said Cecilia Laschi, an associate professor of biorobotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa who is working on the robot."

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