The robot’s color changing abilities are modest right now: It can only manage red, green or blue. But in theory if it can create the RGB palette, it can turn any color it damn well pleases.

When a Robot Names a New Color of Paint ... Hence the above checkpoint, in which the net has learned that “a” and “e” are both common letters that often go together ...

A new inflatable robot changes color when fluid is pumped into its "body." The high-tech camouflage may be a boon to stealth science. August 18, 2012 ...

Morin admits that replicating color shifting in robots is tricky. Nature makes it look so easy, but the response time and the arbitrariness of patterns in chameleon skin are hard to replicate.