SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME - THEME: ICT-2007.8.5
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), Embodied Intelligence

OCTOPUS IP

Novel Design Principles and Technologies for a New Generation of High Dexterity Soft-bodied Robots Inspired by the Morphology and Behaviour of the Octopus

The grand challenge of the OCTOPUS IP is investigating and understanding the principles that give rise to the octopus sensory-motor capabilities and incorporating them in new design approaches and ICT and robotics technologies to build an embodied artefact, based broadly on the anatomy of the 8-arm body of an octopus, and with similar performance in water, in terms of dexterity, speed, control, flexibility, and applicability.

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The octopus as a paradigm of the tight relation between morphology and behaviour