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A camouflage robot that collects substances from the environment

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In this study, we develop a camouflage robot that collects substances from the environment. Many researchers in the field of bio-inspired robotics have reported artificial skins such as skin imitation and skin reproduction. Unlike typical study, we focus on another approach to create skins inspired from a bagworm. Bagworm collects substances from the environment as the exterior and obtains camouflage effect to protect itself from external enemies. In a similar fashion, the developed robot collects the substance from the environment to blend into the environment without a big external device. The developed robot can change the camouflage effect according to changes in the environment. We conducted some experiments to evaluate the proposed approach and confirmed its effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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  1. Department of Informatics, The University of the Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Akira Nozawa & Mitsuharu Matsumoto

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Nozawa, A., Matsumoto, M. A camouflage robot that collects substances from the environment. Artif Life Robotics 26, 42–51 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-020-00611-9

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