New Insights on the Control and Function of Octopus Suckers

Octopuses utilize their suckers for a myriad of functions such as chemo‐ and mechanosensing, exploring and manipulating objects, anchoring the body during crawling, and navigating through narrow passages. The sucker attachment mechanism grants the octopus the ability to perform many of these tasks. The goal of this study is to analyze sucker function and control through the assessment of pull‐off forces under different conditions. Sucker...