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© 2012 AFPMeet squid-bot, a robot that camouflages itself
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Utrack
What a weird lil thing. When it can do laundry and shovel snow let me know.
Amidalism
Sounds pretty cool. Of course we all know that the only "practical" purpose that this will be used for someday will be warfare.
basroil
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.