Octopuses are the undisputed kings of camouflage. Whereas engineers have learned to mimic the colors, octopuses also match ...

The animals' camouflaging capabilities have long inspired humans. The new material could one day help researchers improve ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential applications in camouflage, art, robotics, and even nanoscale ...

By harnessing electron-beam patterning to control the swelling and contraction of a soft polymer, researchers created a ...

Inspired by the remarkable camouflage abilities of octopus and cuttlefish, Stanford researchers have developed a soft material that can rapidly shift its surface texture and color at extremely fine ...

From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies, inspiring today's robotic innovations. It's ...

A way of covering a robotic finger with living human cells has been developed by Japanese scientists. It may sound like something from the realms of sci-fi classics such as Blade Runner or Ex Machina, ...

To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ways that create various colors. When the polymer swells to varying extents in ...

The Stanford team created a metasurface from a polymer previously used in solar panels and printable electronics. They found ...