A soft robot that can change colour in real-time to match its background like a chameleon could pave the way to new forms of military camouflage. The 'artificial chameleon skin' that covers the ...

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 and ...

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.

Late last year, Harvard University chemists and materials scientists introduced a robot whose rubbery appendages fly or, more accurately, crawl in the face of conventional automatons. These ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOl_pEmRqs&feature=player_embedded] Soft robots are made of silicone and use hydraulic controls to move across a surface or ...

The summer of squishy bots continues. First it was the artificial jellyfish powered by a rat's heart cells, then the indestructible robotic earthworm fabricated by MIT. Now, the chameleon robot. This ...

Last year, we covered a radically different approach to robotics. Instead of the hard, mechanical skeletons that are features of most robots, a team was inspired by squid, and built a soft, flexible ...

Researchers in South Korea have created a robot chameleon that can change its skin colour to match its surroundings - just like a real chameleon! The robot can change colour almost instantly by ...

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 that ...

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 and ...

A robot that can change colour to either blend in with or stand out from its surroundings has been created by scientists. The machine, designed by researchers at Harvard University, external, was ...