octopi

Robots

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

3:00AM 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. More »
Science

Octopuses Notice and Prefer High-Def TVs, Unlike Dad

10:36PM 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. More »