Metamaterials, Ai, and the Road to Invisibility Cloaks
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Along with the aerodynamic lift and propulsion cloak.
The future is super.
Might be a little stiff though.
Some others, mostly intended for military vehicles, aim to match surface IR emissions to the background.
Using metamaterials -- which need to be printed or, even worse, made with lithography techniques -- adds unnecessary cost and vastly increases complexity.
If metamaterials can alleviate any of that to some degree, they could make a form of invisibility cloak covering large objects practical.
Edit: and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2762325 which had more discussion