Monthly Archives: October 2009

The site has been updated

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Yes, at last. Free of Blogger/Google. I won’t be blocked!! Thanks to Turkish blocking sites I have decided to carry EVERYTHING to my OWN host. And voila! What you see is what has happened.

I am using WordPress for people who are wondering and I know the theme is a little dark. But it is simple and I like simple.

And just to wet your appetites I shall post a tech related video.

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iRobot’s Shape-Shifting Blob ‘Bot Takes Its First Steps (IEEE News)

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POSTED BY: Anne-Marie Corley // Tue, October 13, 2009

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This is by far one of the coolest and weirdest robot prototypes we at IEEE Spectrum have ever seen.
Meet iRobot’s soft, shape-shifting robot blob. It rolls around and changes shape, and it will be able to squeeze through tiny cracks in a wall when the project is finished.
(Skip the first 1:50 minutes of the video above to see the blob in action.)
Researchers from iRobot and the University of Chicago discussed their palm-sized soft robot, known as a chemical robot, or chembot, at IROS yesterday. It’s “the first demonstration of a completely soft, mobile robot using jamming as an enabling technology,” they write in a paper.