August 17th, 2012

Color-Changing Soft Robots Will Someday Simulate The Crawlers Of The Deep

Soft robots are made of silicone and use hydraulic controls to move across a surface or lift an object. Researchers at Harvard University have gotten these guys to walk around (albeit while tethered to a heavy control unit) and now they’ve gotten them to change color.

In an article in Science Magazine, the team describes how they’ve created a system that senses the surrounding color and then… → Read More