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Comments on Walking Gel Caterpillar Like The Blob!
Didn't I just write an article on squishy robots? Looks like these researchers are way ahead of the curve. (Read
the complete story)
| "It creeps! It crawls! It's the motile BZ gel mass! (That's from the upcoming remake of the original movie.)
I've taken the liberty of adding exclamation points to the links to these other stories - for that extra chilling effect:
SquishBot Soft Shape-Changing Robot!" (Bill Christensen 4/29/2009 11:44:58 AM) |
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