Robotic Tentacles Get to Grips with Tricky Objects

by David Hambling NewScientist.com, 8 May 2006 Robotic "tentacles" that can grasp and grapple with a wide variety of objects have been developed by US researchers. The tentacle-like manipulators, known as "Octarms", resemble an octopus's limb or an elephant's trunk. They were developed through a project called OCTOR (sOft robotiC manipulaTORs), which involves several U.S. universities and is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Read more