Most of us think of the brain as a single command center that controls everything the body does. Octopuses work differently.

BELLEVUE, WA--Researchers studying the behavior and neuroscience of octopuses have long suspected that the animals' arms may have minds of their own. A new model being presented here is the first ...

Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. How these animals achieve such a wide range of ...

Engineers have developed a robotic arm that draws on the sensory architecture of the ...