A creation of irobot + DARPA + University of Chicago for the Chembot project.

The working of any flubber like bot is simple, it should be able to squeeze through openings smaller than their actual "structural" dimensions. And to do this the bot needs to have more of a flubber like structural characteristics which are soft, flexible ,feature to be able to be moulded into any shape and ofcourse being able to analyse the situation and send back data.




It is the first demonstration of a completely soft, mobile robot using jamming as an enabling technology. It does this by something called "jamming skin enabled locomotion" which is done by trapping the air and a collection of loosely packed particles in a package made of silicon rubber.When air is removed from the pocket it deflates returning to a more solid like state. This morphing blobbot contains several packets and by using the jamming technology they can be individually inflate or deflated, By being able to control the parts of the blob that inflate, it can be made to roll to squeeze into holes and all kind of weird things that u could think any squishy thing can do.

A few Pictures of its operation.
[link] http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot


The info:
[link]Geekologie
[link]Trossenrobotics
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