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.
Utrack at Aug. 20, 2012 - 11:26AM JST
What a weird lil thing. When it can do laundry and shovel snow let me know.
Amidalism at Aug. 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.
basroil at Aug. 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.
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Farmboy at Aug. 20, 2012 - 07:56AM JST
In the pictures it looks like a glow-in-the-dark sanitary napkin, or maybe a designer surgical mask.
Utrack at Aug. 20, 2012 - 11:26AM JST
What a weird lil thing. When it can do laundry and shovel snow let me know.
Amidalism at Aug. 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.
basroil at Aug. 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.