From Octopus Training to Robotics, a Northeastern Co-op's Journey | Northeastern Global News

Northeastern University student Aidan Sasser has learned that when 15 research subjects look identical, it’s their personalities that distinguish them — even when they’re octopuses. 

Sasser, a fourth-year student, recently completed a co-op at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he conducted research on how octopuses manipulate objects with the suckers on their arms.

Sasser did this by training California two-spot octopuses — which can curl up into a coffee mug or spread out to the size of a dinner plate — to reach into a series of boxes to interact with agarose discs embedded with prey extract. Read rest of the article here.

Source: From octopus training to robotics, a Northeastern co-op student’s marine biology journey | Northeastern Global News