Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Army Technology - Pentagon Unveils New Gelatinous Chemical Robot
The things we've seen on the Sci-Fi channel keep creeping into our future real world...
A posting at ArmyTechnology.com reports:
"The chemical robot moves from place to place by way of a process called 'jamming' which causes the material to transition between semi-liquid and semi-solid states with only a slight change in volume.
Jamming technology allows the scientists to make the ChemBot grow or shrink and roll it around with accurate control, and even manipulate it to pass through cracks in walls and reform on the other side."
