In order to function safely alongside human workers, robotic arms shouldn't be hard and unyielding. An experimental new arm was designed with that fact in mind, as it mimics soft n' squishy elephant ...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a novel robotic structure, the "trimmed helicoid," inspired by the movements of elephant trunks and octopus ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches levels that would crush most familiar animals, lives an octopus that looks almost unreal. The Dumbo octopus, which ...