Watch it automatically change color as it wriggles across different surfaces.Active Camo<\/p>\n
A team of Korean researchers seems to have cracked the code for rudimentary cloaking, or active camouflage tech that can automatically blend into its surroundings in real-time.<\/p>\n
The flexible, color-mimicking technology is durable and sensitive enough to help a soft robot blend into its surroundings, much like a real-world chameleon, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday. To prove that the system works, the researchers published a video ofthe chameleon-like bot, complete with cute googly eyes, that changes color from red to blue to green as it waddles across different monochrome surfaces.<\/p>\n
Its a significant step forward for camouflage research, Inverse reports, even though the tech is still in preliminary, proof-of-concept stages today.<\/p>\n
This isnt the first attempt to develop active camouflage by a long shot. But this experiment does take a different approach from other systems that often try to jam-pack as many colorful pixels as possible onto a surface something that the researchers describe as exceptionally challenging from a technological standpoint in their paper.<\/p>\n
Instead, the color-changing material and the little chameleon-bot is made of several stacked layers of color-changing displays, Inverse notes, which use nanotech sensors to detect and display the colors of the surroundings.<\/p>\n
The camouflage is already being considered for military applications, which perhaps shouldnt come across as the biggest surprise given how long active camouflage has been a stable of militaristic science fiction media and a pipe dream for real-world military research.<\/p>\n
The first application will be military, [such as] covert intel robots [or] actively camouflaging military uniforms, senior study author and Seoul National University Seung Hwan Ko told Inverse.<\/p>\n
But down the road, Ko envisions a world where we could buy color-changing clothing that changes its color and patterns according to your taste or environment.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: MIND-BENDING JAMES BOND TECHNOLOGY BROUGHT TO LIFE STUDY [Inverse]<\/p>\n
More on active camouflage: Super-Flexible Display Could Enable Real-Life Active Camouflage<\/p>\n
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