iRobot's Shape-Shifting Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps

iRobot created a soft, shape-shifting robot blob. It can roll around and change shape, with the ability to fit through small cracks.

This soft, mobile robot was designed using jamming as an enabling technology. This shape-shifting blob in moving toward the ability to include sensors or even connect different blobs together.

Website/Movie: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot