Using mechanisms inspired by nature to create new technological innovations is a signature of one Virginia Tech research team. The group led by Associate Professor Michael Bartlett has created an ...

Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Using mechanisms inspired by ...

Over the last few years, Virginia Tech scientists have been looking to the octopus for inspiration to design technologies that can better grip a wide variety of objects in underwater environments.

Off the rocky coast of Jervis Bay, Australia, an octopus scoops a fistful of silt into its arms, angles its siphon, and blasts the debris straight at a neighbor sitting a few body lengths away. The ...

A team of researchers has developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely gripping objects underwater. This is significant because humans aren't naturally equipped to thrive underwater. There ...