Gadgets Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Spot Now Sees the World in Color, Has 5G, and Uses a Fancy New Controller ...

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.

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 ...

Chameleons have long fascinated humans with their ability to change color depending on their surroundings. But the real life reptiles now have a technological rival. Researchers from Seoul ...

The robo-chameleon can’t perform its color-changing tricks as quickly as a real chameleon can. It takes about a half-second for its artificial skin to match what it’s walking on, but the ...

Metrics used to measure progress in robotic grasping can vary based on the task. For example, for robots operating in a mission-critical environment like space, accuracy matters above all.

The 'Tree of Robots' from the Technical University of Munich classifies robots by sensitivity, aiming for a new safety and ...

Robots have got pretty good at picking up objects. But give them something shiny or clear, and the poor droids will likely lose their grip. Not ideal if you want a kitchen robot that can slice you ...