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To help explore underwater environments without damaging coral or sea life, engineers from UC San Diego created a robot squid (via Hackster.io). Soft robots are less likely to harm aquatic life ...

But with a little imagination, we can see these developing into Matrix-style flying squid robots with as many arms as is practical. With propulsion units on each tentacle or leg segment ...

“These animals are also capable of highly effective swimming, especially when escaping from predators.” While squid-inspired robots have been built before, the authors are specifically looking for a ...

even humans—but we still have a lot to learn about the squid that live in the deep sea. Advanced underwater robots are helping us better understand the lives of deep-water squids, revealing ...

It's called a multigait soft robot and is composed exclusively of soft materials, inspired by creatures without hard internal skeleton, like squid and worms. When tested, it was able to navigate ...

But the creators of this new robot were inspired by squid, which perform impressive feats of flexibility using a soft body that's supported by the ocean's buoyancy. They figured they could skip ...

The vast and mysterious realm of the deep sea has yielded another intriguing discovery, thanks to the advanced underwater robots of the ... a mother squid nurturing a cluster of giant eggs.