The Blob Bot

This is cool.

The bot, which was shown off at the EEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems this week, has a silicone skin, and moves by selectively inflating and deflating parts of its spherical body. But the locomotion system entails more than simple puffing and rolling: The video explains the "particle jamming" system of locomotion, "a mechanism by which material can transition from a liquid-like to a solid-like state."

Maybe it can be used to make morphing masks? Weapon arm attachments that morphs at will?

Link: iRobot's Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze