Camouflage: Incredible chameleon-inspired robot changes colour in real time to match its background

At present, the robot chameleon developed by the researcher is a little larger than the real thing. However, with their initial study complete, the team are hoping to be able to scale down the design. In addition, the team are looking to give the robot the ability to reflect the textures of background surfaces with greater resolution, a feat they say may be attainable with advances in signal processing and data-driven science. The full findings of the study were published in the journal Nature Communications. 'The ultimate form of this application will be an invisibility cloak -- by blending into the background,' said paper author and mechanical engineer Seung Hwan Ko of the Seoul National University in South Korea.