Octopi

Soft Robotics Offer the Automatons Yet Another Way to Take Over the Earth

3:00AM March 23, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Between this post about “soft robots,” those nanotube muscles we talked about earlier this week, and the last scene of Battlestar Galactica, I have no doubt that our future is very robotic indeed.

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Science

Octopuses Notice and Prefer High-Def TVs, Unlike Dad

10:36PM December 22, 2008 | John Herrman

Extremely important research is being done in Australia right now, and it’s yielding extremely important results: octopi are officially more technically discerning than about 1/5th of the American public.

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