Octopus Arms: Versatile Tools for Complex Behaviors
Originally Published 4 months ago — by Nature
This study investigates how octopus arms facilitate complex behaviors in natural environments, revealing high flexibility, diverse arm actions, and localized deformations that support their ecological adaptability and inspire soft robotics. It highlights the hierarchical organization of behaviors, arm actions, and deformations, demonstrating that octopus arms can perform nearly all actions and deformations across all arms, with some task-specific partitioning, especially between anterior and posterior arms, in various shallow-water habitats.
