Posted on 08/10/2021 11:34:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The artificial electronic skin adjusts its hues instantly and automatically to match the background colors the robot crawls over. The invention, detailed today in the journal Nature Communications, is one of the first devices to change color and patterns based on its environment. It could also help scientists craft a new generation of active camouflage wear for military applications or help designers create fashion styles that flash different colors depending on nearby backgrounds.
In addition to different colors, the robot can display several preprogrammed patterns on its exterior. The skin doesn’t exactly mirror a nearby background, but even real-life chameleons shift their shades not to reflect their surroundings, but to blend in. To copy this capability, the researchers give the skin several patterns to choose from, each which can flash on or off independently. The combination of these pre-patterned dots, stripes and curlicues capture the complexity of most backgrounds for the robot to execute its great disappearing act.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
For a real challenge, they should build an artificial octopus which not only changes color but skin texture as well, just like the real ones.
Call it the Lindsay Graham Chameleon;
It quickly matches whatever background it poses in front of. Quite uncanny and bizarre!
A robotic Nanzi Pelousy...gee, what an accomplishment. :>(
Not my fault.
“Have you SEEN terminator?”
Funny how scientists designed a fake one but don’t believe that the real one is designed....
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Shouldn’t they be busy creating mosquito drones that inject people with the devil potion that Bill Gates of Hell is funding?
CRISPR
Modified mosquitoes are and have been released.
It's all about what we can do and nobody is stopping to consider if we should do.
In the process, we are trespassing on that which is reserved for a higher authority.
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