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It Creeps and Leaps, Glides and Slides

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by axb

Thanks to iRobot, the company behind the Roomba, robots may now be able to ooze and squeeze themselves through small spaces in a blob-like fashion. The ChemBot is a soft, flexible (and in some people’s opinion, very creepy) robot that can grow and shrink itself through a process called “jamming.” [CNET]

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