Hollywood movies have used giant squids and octopi to inspire underwater nightmares for decades. But Festo, a German company that makes industrial machinery, has realized that an octopus’ amazing ...

WASHINGTON --The latest revolutionary robot isn’t the metallic, costly machine you’d expect: It’s squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less and made for pennies by a 3D printer. Meet Octobot.

(CBS News) If you think all robots have to be clanking, metal machines, think again. According to the Pentagon and Harvard University, the future of robotics may be soft and squishy. The two ...

MOSS LANDING >> Hideous denizens live in the deep sea. But so does a cute wide-eyed, pink and squishy little octopus. The newly discovered, cartoon-like creature is so cute that “adorable” might ...

Stephanie Bush is a researcher working to classify a particular species of deep-sea octopus. A small, squishy, "fragile," and very cute type of species. A species so disarmingly cute that Bush might ...