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Innovative MBARI technology reveals new insights about deep-sea octopus and opens the door for future bioinspired robots.

Imaging technologies are helping answer fundamental questions about marine life. The EyeRIS camera system developed by MBARI’s Biopinspiration Lab collects near real-time three-dimensional visual data about the structure and biomechanics of ocean animals.

By outfitting one of MBARI’s robotic submersibles with EyeRIS, MBARI Principal Engineer Kakani Katija and a team of researchers were able to observe deep-sea pearl octopus as they crawled across the rugged rocky terrain of the famous Octopus Garden offshore of Central California. The 3D visual data they collected has provided important new insights about octopus locomotion that can open the door to designing exciting new octopus-inspired robots and other technologies in the future.

Developed with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, EyeRIS is a game changer for studying biomechanics of marine animals in their natural environments.

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Research Publication:
Katija, K., C.L. Huffard, P.L.D. Roberts, J. Daniels, J. Erickson, D. Klimov, H. Ruhl, and A.D. Sherman. 2025. In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

Video credits:
Producer/editor: Kyra Schlining
Script: Raúl Nava, Kyra Schlining
Science advisors: Kakani Katija, Crissy Huffard
Narrator: Kakani Katija
Production team: Joost Daniels, Kakani Katija, Larissa Lemon, Raúl Nava, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun
Music: ambient-documentary-background (Pond5 140610002); digital-media-information-tech (Pond5 180158869)