{"id":676248,"date":"2026-11-06T00:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T00:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676248\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T00:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T00:54:08","slug":"see-how-octopuses-squeeze-through-tiny-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676248\/","title":{"rendered":"See how octopuses squeeze through tiny spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3T6H3TGWKZEYLF77UJNTVF4VXY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Under the circus tent of the ocean, octopuses play the role of contortionists and escape artists, packing themselves itself into spaces too tiny to believe. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IDNTYRNH2JH5NOQZBGNWWM6KFI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For aquarium professionals and lab scientists, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/animalia\/wp\/2016\/04\/13\/octopus-slips-out-of-aquarium-tank-crawls-across-floor-escapes-down-pipe-to-ocean\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/animalia\/wp\/2016\/04\/13\/octopus-slips-out-of-aquarium-tank-crawls-across-floor-escapes-down-pipe-to-ocean\/\">a challenge to contain<\/a> these animals known for their intelligence and dexterity. But to roboticist Wenci Xin of the National University of Singapore, octopuses\u2019 skill makes them a model worth mimicking. That\u2019s because he wants to design better robots for search-and-rescue operations, which can navigate tight and unpredictable spaces inside collapsed buildings and other settings. Right now, such robots are typically long and narrow. Xin dreams instead of robots that are squishy and flexible: octopuslike instead of snakelike, so to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the circus tent of the ocean, octopuses play the role of contortionists and escape artists, packing themselves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-676248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}