Aperture Science Panel

"Gentlemen, I give you Panels - the planks of tomorrow! Fully configurable - infinitely variable! Say - Aperture-brand Panels will assist your test subjects every step of the way!"

- Cave Johnson

Aperture Science Panels are structural and testing elements used in almost all Test Chambers of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center in Portal 2, and function as the successor to the Victory Lift seen in Portal. They form the structure of most Test Chambers, and are often instrumental in reaching certain areas. They may or may not be required to be activated with Thermal Discouragement Beam catchers, Super Buttons, ordinary buttons or other testing elements.

Overview

 * Forming the core structure of the Test Chambers, Panels are reconfigurable boards, which may or may not accept portals fired by the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. They are operated from the rear by robotic arms, and a green or red light around the edge of the Panel may indicate its operational status, as these lights illuminated green when GLaDOS reactivated some Panels in Portal 2.


 * The walls of GLaDOS's chamber in Portal 2 are formed entirely of Panels, which GLaDOS can reconfigure as she likes. They allow access to the Stalemate Resolution Annexe.


 * The Crusher, a variety of Panel developed by Wheatley, is double-thickness, with no lights and spikes that kill the player on impact.


 * Under high forces, the Panel arms have been known to fall off in large numbers, such as when Wheatley crashed a Test Chamber full of Defective Turrets into another Test Chamber.

List of appearances

 * Portal 2
 * The Final Hours of Portal 2