Drawing inspiration from marine creatures like squids and octopuses, researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln are ...

Taking a cue from ocean-dwelling species, University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are developing synthetic skins that will ...

A newly developed rubbery, octopuslike robot can change colors to hide or stand out in its environment. Scientists at Harvard have recently begun developing flexible robots from elastic plastics ...

The color changing capabilities hold a lot of potential in human-robot interactions, which will greatly benefit from these color-changing properties, as Dr. Shepherd and his group believe that ...

Imagine a world where robots creep up on you: Electric motors just a gentle whir, hard shells changing color to blend in with their surroundings. Well, there’s no need to imagine—it’s happened.

uses a pair of cameras to figure out the fruit’s position and judge its color. Only berries that meet an 80% redness standard are selected. Then the robot very carefully cuts the strawberry off ...

A new soft, quivering robot walks when inflated and changes color when colored fluid—including glow-in-the-dark liquid—is pumped into its "body." Researchers at Harvard University have made a ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a 3D-printed robot “skin” capable of changing color according to the physical stimuli that it receives. The work was ...

But with the latest upgrade, the five stereo cameras around Spot’s body, used to map its surroundings in 3D, now capture full color along with ... maneuver the robot as well as program ...

To make the new four-limbed robot change color, instead of pumping air in and out of its body, they used a separate layer of channels in which they can stream a variety of liquid dyes in and out.

“This chameleon robot recognizes the surrounding color and changes its body color accordingly as it walks around, which enables it to camouflage very quickly and actively,” says Seung Hwan ...