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Octopus suckers grip wet surfaces, inspiring patches and soft robots.
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Yue and colleagues coupled suction cups with soft fluidic circuits and actuators to mimic the octopus's hierarchical control in soft robots.
As reported in: Yue, Lu, Tang et al. (2025). Embodying soft robots with octopus-inspired hierarchical suction intelligence. Science Robotics. doi:10.1126/scirobotics.adr4264
Baik and colleagues made a reversible wet/dry adhesive patch based on the dome-like protuberances inside octopus suction cups.
As reported in: Baik, Kim, Park et al. (2017). A wet-tolerant adhesive patch inspired by protuberances in suction cups of octopi. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature22382
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