These robots are test-beds for ideas about form and color and movement." Just as with the soft robots, the "color layers" used in the camouflage start as molds created using 3D printers.

The robots camouflage system is likened to that used by certain sea creatures such as cuttlefish, squid, and octopus. The new camouflage enabled robot comes from the same team that released the ...

A new inflatable robot changes color when fluid is pumped into its "body." The high-tech camouflage could be a boon to stealth science. The new robot, filled with air and glowing fluid.

Morin admits that replicating color shifting in robots is tricky. Nature makes it look so easy, but the response time and the arbitrariness of patterns in chameleon skin are hard to replicate.