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- Creating a compact structure that mimics the shape-shifting and color-changing abilities of natural organisms presents challenges but offers new possibilities for hybrid robotic and visual applications.
- The development of the Soft Magneto-Mechano-Chromic (SoMMeC) structure allows for real-time and programmable changes in color and shape, enabling advanced interactions between robots, environments, and users.
- The SoMMeC technology features quick color transformations across the visible spectrum and can be used in various applications such as advertising, camouflage, and advanced robotics, ultimately making systems more flexible and capable.
Article Abstract
Recreating natural organisms' dynamic shape-morphing and adaptive color-changing capabilities in a compact structure poses significant challenges but unlocks unprecedented hybridized robotic-visual applications. Overcoming programmability and predictability obstacles is key to achieving real-time, responsive changes in appearance and functionality, enhancing robot-environment-user interactions in ways previously unattainable. Herein, a Soft Magneto-Mechano-Chromic (SoMMeC) structure comprising a magnetic actuating and a synthetic photonic film, mirroring the intricate color-tuning mechanism of chameleons is devised. A model combining numerical simulation and a strain-dependent color evolution map enables precise predictions and controllable shape-color alterations across various geometrical and magnetization profiles. The SoMMeC exhibits rapid (0.1s), broad (full-visible spectrum), tether-free (remote magnetic manipulation), and programmable (model-guided control) color transformations, surpassing traditional limitations with its real-time response, broad and omnidirectional coloration for enhanced visibility, and robustness against external disturbances. The SoMMeC translates into dynamic advertising iridescence, adaptive camouflage, self-sensing, and multi-level encryption, and transcends traditional robotics by seamlessly blending dynamic movement with nuanced visual changes. It opens up a spectrum of applications that redefine robotic functionality through dynamic appearance modulation, making robotic systems more versatile, adaptive, and suitable for unexplored integrative functions.
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