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How to move with no rigid skeleton? The octopus has the answers.
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2002
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Soft-bodied Organism BiomechanicsSingle BoneAxial SkeletonKinesiologySoft RoboticsEngineeringBiomechanicsBio-inspired RoboticsExceptional ControlAnatomyKinematicsHuman MovementRigid SkeletonRoboticsSkeletal CreaturesExoskeletonHealth Sciences
The octopus is amazingly flexible and shows exceptional control and coordination in all its movements. It seems remarkable to us skeletal creatures that the octopus achieves all this without a single bone.