Mimicking the Appearance Changing Abilities of Cephalopods with a Pneumatic Mechanism

Cephalopods (e.g. squids, octopuses, cuttlefish) are able to actively adapt their appearance in terms of color, texture or transparency. The goal of this project is to mimic this ability with a simple and mechanical solution and apply this technology to a product or environment. This resulted in a pneumatic mechanism which folds open after...