The robot’s color changing abilities are modest right now: It can only manage red, green or blue. But in theory if it can create the RGB palette, it can turn any color it damn well pleases. That ...

The robot's 'skin' is made up of a liquid crystal ink that changes colour when the nanowires cause the temperature to change. When the robot walks across three different colours, red, green, and blue.

While this robot made from random branches struggling to crawl across the floor is comparatively sad to watch, it represents the future of robotics as the bot learned those moves all by itself.