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Meet squid-bot, a robot that camouflages itself

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What a weird lil thing. When it can do laundry and shovel snow let me know.

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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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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.

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