Meet squid-bot, a robot that camouflages itself

Technology Aug. 20, 2012 - 06:03AM JST ( 4 )

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FarmboyAug. 20, 2012 - 07:56AM JST

you can achieve a great deal in terms of your ability to camouflage an object,

In the pictures it looks like a glow-in-the-dark sanitary napkin, or maybe a designer surgical mask.
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UtrackAug. 20, 2012 - 11:26AM JST

What a weird lil thing. When it can do laundry and shovel snow let me know.
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AmidalismAug. 20, 2012 - 12:43PM JST

Sounds pretty cool. Of course we all know that the only "practical" purpose that this will be used for someday will be warfare.
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basroilAug. 20, 2012 - 01:57PM JST

Interestingly, this thing isn't a robot (no sensors), can't actually move (only bulges a bit, but has zero control), and currently needs an external system about twenty times the size of the "robot" itself.

And this doesn't have microchannels, just small tubes. To be a microchannel, certain hydrodynamic properties must be achieved which are impossible to do so with a robot that size. Perhaps if they shrunk it down to less than 1cm in length it could actually use microchannels.