One of the most striking things about these creatures, however, is the fact that each of their eight arms almost seems to have a mind of its own, allowing an octopus to multitask in a manner that ...

About two thirds are in its arms. The rest are in the doughnut-shaped brain, which is wrapped around the oesophagus and located in the octopus’s head. Octopuses have demonstrated intelligence in a ...

The animal cooperates readily in laboratory experiments. Tests of its capacities before and after brain surgery lend support to the idea that there are two kinds of memory: long-term and short-term ...

At the recent World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, Octopus Energy’s founder and CEO Greg Jackson urged market ...

as well as new bio-hybrid robots that combine living tissues and machines. But it's the abilities of the living octopus which are the main focus for the research.