Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a novel robotic structure, the "trimmed helicoid," inspired by the movements of elephant trunks and octopus ...

Space robots are about to get a whole lot sleeker and slinkier. Researchers are developing new types of robotic systems inspired by elephant trunks, octopus arms and giraffe tongues. These flexible, ...

A Woodland Park Zoo elephant may be the next Paul the oracle octopus — the cephalopod that correctly predicted Spain’s World Cup victory. On Thursday, the zoo presented Chai the Asian elephant with ...

Researchers have developed a flexible robotic arm that mimics an elephant’s trunk, capable of twisting while staying pliable in other directions. The arm can perform activities like turning off a ...

In order to function safely alongside human workers, robotic arms shouldn't be hard and unyielding. An experimental new arm was designed with that fact in mind, as it mimics soft n' squishy elephant ...

Oh, to be an an octopus, to hold and read eight books at once. Or maybe only seven, leaving one tentacle to turn pages? What, you say? You would need eight pairs of eyes and a brain as big as a train ...