A Robotic Octopus Would Surely Be Captain Nemo’s Worst Nightmare

When designing robots it only makes sense to occasionally take a peek at what Mother Nature has already add up up with for surviving and navigate our planet . But do robotics researchers have to keep choosing the populace ’s most creepiest animals for inspiration ? Does anyone really want to exist in a world withunstoppable robot snakesorartificial octopilurking in our ocean ?

That has n’t stopped research worker from the Institute of Computer Science , Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas in Heraklion , Greece from finding a way to dead mimic the graceful way an Octopus uses its tentacles to move through the water .

The latest version of this existence now has flexile silicone polymer webbing between its artificial tentacles that help actuate the creation at fastness of up to 0.04 mile per hour . Not exactly lightning fast just yet , but the inquiry could facilitate lead to revolutionary young way to incite boats or submarines , particularly if they allow those crafts to move through the water as stealthily as an octopus or calamari does — even if they ’re not linger 20,000 leagues under the ocean . [ 2014 IEEE / RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and SystemsviaScience NewsviaDamn Geeky ]