Octopuses: biological facts and technical solutions

TL;DR

This paper reviews octopus biological features and explores bioinspired soft-robotic solutions, highlighting recent developments and proposing future research directions in AI and robotics inspired by octopus anatomy and behavior.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of octopus biology and surveys current bioinspired robotic solutions, offering new ideas for integrating AI with soft-robotics.

Findings

Various octopus-inspired soft-robotic arm designs

Current solutions differ significantly in approach

Proposes new research directions combining AI and bioinspired robotics

Abstract

Octopus is an invertebrate belonging to the class of Cephalopoda. The body of an Octopus lacks any morphological joints and rigid parts. Their arms, skin and the complex nervous system are investigated by a several researchers all over the world. Octopuses are the object of inspiration for my scientists in different areas, including AI. Soft- and hardware are developed based on octopus features. Soft-robotics octopus-inspired arms are the most common type of developments. There are a lot of different variants of this solution, each of them is different from the other. In this paper, we describe the most remarkable octopus features, show solutions inspired by octopus and provide new ideas for further work and investigations in combination of AI and bioinspired soft-robotics areas.