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.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — And the winner is....Squishy! The Aquarium of Niagara announced the winning choice out of three possible names for its new female Pacific red octopus. The top vote getter ...

Stephanie Bush, the scientist studying the species at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, confirmed that the animal in the video was indeed the “adorabilis” species she’s researching. “It is ...

If you’ve ever played the claw game, you probably never thought about the scientific applications of that arcade game designed to take your money. But engineers at Harvard University must have. A team ...

The world’s first completely soft robot has just been introduced, and it’s modeled after an octopus, meaning this robot is an octobot, and we’re in love. In case you didn’t know, squishy robots are a ...

Can I get real for a second? I love soft robots. These squishy mechanoids have all the cool factor of being, you know, robots, plus a whole host of squish-related superpowers. They're less likely to ...