From the website:
"OCTOPUS aims to investigate and understand
the key principles of the octopus body and brain,
by building a soft 8-arm robot capable of elongating its arms to reach and grasp while navigating submerged under water.
The octopus is a unique and paradigmatic example for bio-inspired soft robotics,
because of its great motor capabilities and enhanced behavior,
due to its particular muscular structure and sensory-motor system."
The project is coordinated and headed by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy) involving 6 European partners:
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI,Jerusalem, Israel)
- The Weizmann Institute of Science (Weizmann, Rehovot, Israel)
- The University of Zurich (UZH, Zurich, Switzerland)
- The Italian Institute of Science (IIT, Genova, Italy)
- The University of Reading (UREAD, Reading, United Kingdom)
- The Foundation for Research and Technologies (FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
See video here.
Note: Small-editing on my part.
Because Italy is more than a geographic expression..
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