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Soldiers might end up using flexible robots inspired by invertebrates to go where humans can't. Ed Habtour works in the US Army Research Laboratory's Vehicle Technology Directorate, where he specializes in nonlinear dynamical systems. The US Army Research Laboratory and University of Minnesota have joined forces to develop extra pliable materials that can be 3D-printed on the battlefield and used to build robots that can move easily within confined spaces, the way biological organisms like a squid might maneuver through small holes in underwater rocks. Current military robots can't move freely in highly populated environments because they're made with rigid mechanical parts. However, that situation may change now that researchers have recently created a prototype of soft 3D-printed dielectric elastomer actuator -- an electroactive polymer that changes shape when hit with an electrical charge.

This smooth and flexible robot, modeled after an octopus, glows under black light. It took two years to perfect but only a few dollars' worth of materials to produce. An "octobot" less than three inches wide is changing the robotics landscape. The octobot is the world's first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot. It is free of wires, batteries, and any hard material--like its namesake, the octopus, which has no internal skeleton.

The "octobot" is a squishy little robot that fits in the palm of your hand and looks like something in a goody bag from a child's birthday party. But despite its quirky name and diminutive size, this bot represents an astonishing advance in robotics. According to the Harvard researchers who created it, it's the first soft robot that is completely self-contained. It has no hard electronic components--no batteries or computer chips--and moves without being tethered to a computer. The octobot is basically a pneumatic tube with a very cute exterior.

According to the Harvard researchers who created it, it's the first soft robot that is completely self-contained. It has no hard electronic components--no batteries or computer chips--and moves without being tethered to a computer. The alternating release of gas is what makes the bot do what looks like a little dance, wiggling its tentacles up and down and moving around in the process. The octobot can move for about eight minutes on one milliliter of fuel. So how do you even build something like this? "You have to make all the parts yourself," says Ryan Truby, a graduate student in Jennifer Lewis's lab at Harvard, where the materials half of this research is taking place.

A robot developed by British robotics engineers can sustain itself by consuming living matter from its environment (pictured). The octobot is an entirely soft, autonomous robot. A pneumatic network, pink, is embedded within the octobot's body and hyperelastic actuator arms, light blue. It's squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less and made for pennies by a 3-D printer The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules.

Science fiction has accustomed us to metallic, humanoid robots, but there are better models out there. Scientists have created a completely wireless, soft robotic octopus, dubbed the "Octobot." The robot is made of supple silicon and is powered by a chemical reaction. So far Octobot can only wave its legs up and down somewhat feebly, but it represents a major leap forward in the field of soft robotics. For some time, scientists observing the natural world have noticed that there are more promising robot models than humans.

"One longstanding vision for the field of soft robotics has been to create robots that are entirely soft, but the struggle has always been in replacing rigid components like batteries and electronic controls with analogous soft systems and then putting it all together," said Robert Wood--who co-developed Octobot with Jennifer A. Lewis--speaking to the Harvard Gazette. Octobot is proof that it can be done--and somewhat easily, too, using readily available fabrication methods.

Meet the octobot, a unique new creation out of Harvard that the university says could be the first step in a new kind of bot. This totally soft robot has eight movable legs, just like its flesh-and-blood marine cousin, which was the inspiration for the device. Created partially through 3-D printing, the octobot is autonomous, according to Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Its power source is hydrogen peroxide, which together with a catalyst of platinum, creates gas that travels into the bot's appendages to move them. "One long-standing vision for the field of soft robotics has been to create robots that are entirely soft, but the struggle has always been in replacing rigid components like batteries and electronic controls with analogous soft systems and then putting it all together," Robert Wood, a professor of engineering and one of the lead researchers behind the octobot, said in a statement.

Our future robot overlords never looked so squishy. A team of scientists led out of Harvard University have managed to build an entirely soft robot -- one that's inspired by an octopus. The octobot, described this week in the journal Nature, could pave the way toward more effective soft robots that could be used in search and rescue, exploration and to more safely interact with humans. "The octobot is a minimal system designed to demonstrate our integrated design and fabrication strategy," the study authors wrote, "which may serve as a foundation for a new generation of completely soft, autonomous robots." Traditionally, robots have been seen as stiff, angular entities, made of metal and other rigid materials (think C3PO in Star Wars).