Saturday, April 14, 2007

IT'S SATURDAY AND THE CHEMBOTS ARE COMING!


As if life wasn’t complicated enough, the wonderful Valerie sent the following that decidedly slowed down my breakfast…

“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative proposals to develop Chemical Robots (ChemBots): soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions; reconstitute size, shape, and functionality after traversal; carry meaningful payloads; and perform tasks. ChemBots represent the convergence of soft materials chemistry and robotics to create a fundamentally new class of soft meso-scale robots.”
But you really need to read the whole thing.

The secret word is Slither

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It gives a whole new meaning to "just slip it under the door"