The inspiration for the design is derived from papillae, a group of tiny muscles used by octopuses to change their movement ...

A German company called Festo has unveiled a rather bizarre robotic octopus arm, which could work alongside humans in the future. Called the OctopusGripper, the device is able to pick up and hold ...

Engineers have created a soft robot arm that moves with light, mimicking the elegant motion of an octopus.

German electrical automation company Festo has good form for pushing the envelope in robot development, previously showing off bio-inspired bot versions of ants, a kangaroo, flying penguins and ...

Scientists inspired by the octopus's nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its environment.

Though it looks more like Dr. Octopus' mechanical tentacles from "Spiderman," a flexible, robotic arm recently developed by German automation company Festo was actually fashioned after an elephant ...

We've seen some impressive nature-inspired flying bots from the creative minds at Festo's Bionic Learning Network over the years, but the autonomous BionicBee is not only the smallest so far but ...

German automation company Festo is at it again. Its latest robots -- an autonomous bionic arm and a flying robot bird -- are here, and they're awesome.

The researchers at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Beihang University in China have built a soft robotic arm called Festo Tentacle Gripper.