A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus in its natural habitat. The robot's "triple-in-one" system enables it to shift colors, move and capture prey in a way that is fascinatingly similar to the aquatic animal.

While the scientific world has been working on modeling robots after octopuses for over a decade, this is the first time scientists have been able to combine the way an octopus moves and camouflages itself into a single robot.

Octoid was built by researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, led by a scientist named Dae-Yoon Kim.

"We aim to expand this technology into the development of intelligent soft machines, such as self-aware, reflexive, and learning-based soft robots,"

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