{"id":184626,"date":"2024-03-09T02:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/designing-a-drone-that-uses-adaptive-invisibility-towards-autonomous-sea-land-air-cloaks"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:07:53","slug":"designing-a-drone-that-uses-adaptive-invisibility-towards-autonomous-sea-land-air-cloaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/designing-a-drone-that-uses-adaptive-invisibility-towards-autonomous-sea-land-air-cloaks","title":{"rendered":"Designing a drone that uses adaptive invisibility: Towards autonomous sea-land-air cloaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designing-a-drone-that-uses-adaptive-invisibility-towards-autonomous-sea-land-air-cloaks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of objects seamlessly disappearing, not just in controlled laboratory environments but also in real-world scenarios, has long captured the popular imagination. This concept epitomizes the trajectory of human civilization, from primitive camouflage techniques to the sophisticated metamaterial-based cloaks of today.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, this goal was further highlighted in <i>Science<\/i>, as one of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/resource\/125-questions-exploration-and-discovery\">125 questions: exploration and discovery<\/a>.\u201d Researchers from Zhejiang University have made strides in this direction by demonstrating an intelligent aero amphibious invisibility cloak. This cloak can maintain invisibility amidst dynamic environments, neutralizing external stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of research and the emergence of numerous invisibility cloak prototypes, achieving an aero amphibious cloak capable of manipulating electromagnetic scattering in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a> against ever-changing landscapes remains a formidable challenge. The hurdles are multifaceted, ranging from the need for complex-amplitude tunable metasurfaces to the absence of intelligent algorithms capable of addressing inherent issues such as non-uniqueness and incomplete inputs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of objects seamlessly disappearing, not just in controlled laboratory environments but also in real-world scenarios, has long captured the popular imagination. This concept epitomizes the trajectory of human civilization, from primitive camouflage techniques to the sophisticated metamaterial-based cloaks of today. Recently, this goal was further highlighted in Science, as one of the \u201c125 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}