Italian contribution to BioRobotics
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Italian contribution to BioRobotics

How Italian researchers developed an octopus-like prototype robot

Scientists from the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa developed a prototype robot, taking inspiration from the octopus and named it octo-bot. It is a soft-bodied, tentacle machine has the ability to propel itself underwater, as well as to wedge its body between rocks into tiny nooks and corners. The octo-bot is the fruit of seven years of research and , according to Prof. Cecilia Laschi from Pisa, it will "deal handily with the unpredictable surfaces, waves and currents it encounters".

The first prototype octo-bot will soon be kept in the city aquarium in Livorno, where it will share its tank with a real octopus.

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Amo l'Asia in (quasi) tutte le sue sfaccettature, ecco perché cerco di trascorrerci più tempo possibile. Dopo aver lavorato per anni come ricercatrice a New Delhi e Hong Kong, per qualche anno osserverò l'Oriente dalla quella che è considerata essere la città più vivibile del mondo: Melbourne. Insegno Culture and Business Practice in Asia ad RMIT University,  Asia and the World a The University of Melbourne e mi occupo di India per il Centro Militare di Studi Strategici di Roma. Su Twitter mi trovate a @castaritaHK, via email a astarita@graduate.hku.hk

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