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.

Video caption, The robot uses colour to either stand out from its surroundings or blend in, as Stephen Morin from Harvard University describes here (Video produced by the journal Science) A robot ...

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 ...