Color-Changing Robotic Skin

Mar-26-17 A color-changing robotic skin inspired by a beetle could give robots camouflage capabilities.

The skin was created by a team from MIT, who were inspired by the way the goldbug beetle will change color when threatened. The team built the skin using an MIT MultiFad 3D printer to print a plastic substrate, which was then printed with flexible circuitry as well as the rest of the components. The resulting material is able to change color when stretched.

Though the team is not quite sure of the material’s applications, it does prove their theory that they can replicate sensorimotor pathways inside a 3-D-printed object.

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