In a flash, an octopus can make like ragged-edged seaweed or coral by changing the color and texture of its skin, thus becoming nearly invisible in its environment. And in the future, robots may be ...

According to its developers, the aptly named OCTOID is a soft robot that leverages cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers ...

Developed by experts at Stanford University, a new electric skin (e-skin) has a fabricated stretchable, color-changing, pressure-sensitive material, that is the closest we have seen to an artificial ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American An octopus can slink through amazingly small ...

Soft bots able to change color and texture could have key military and research applications. In a flash, an octopus can make like ragged-edged seaweed or coral by changing the color and texture of ...