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Comments on SquishBot Soft Shape-Changing 'Chembots'
These soft-bodied shape-shifting robots are needed by DARPA; MIT wants theirs to lay down a trail of slime. (Read
the complete story)
| "if anybody cares, i think rudy rucker wrote about critters sorta like this in 'wetware' or one of those books" (there's also that silly CGI thing in "terminator 2 4/22/2009 2:00:50 AM) |
| "it was in 'wetware' and 'freeware,' and they were called 'moldies'
Can anyone provide a quote for this? - Bill" |
| "Ick. There was an old Vincent Price horror movie called "The Tingler." The monster in the movie looks just like a squishbot." (Winchell Chung 4/22/2009 6:53:13 AM) |
| "I forgot about this other story; they should try learning more about how creatures in nature go from soft to hard. See this story on Flexible Rigid Biopolymer Inspired By Sea Cucumbers." (Bill Christensen 4/22/2009 9:06:14 AM) |
| "Thanks, Winchell. I'd like to remind readers that YOU SHOULD NOT BE EMBARRASSED TO SCREAM! IT MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE!
(Bill Christensen 4/22/2009 9:07:27 AM) |
| "'Monique was shaped more or less like a chessman with arms, like a pawn or a queen or a knight. The exact appearance of her humanoid head and arms was something she could tweak...In [her] alternate "pelican" mode, Monique became a set of great flapping wings attached to a tapered big-eyed body... Monique's tissues had at least three other basic attractor modes as well: the spread-out "puddle" shape she used for soaking up sun, the seagoing "shark" shape, and the rarely used "rocket" shape that moldies could use to fly back and forth between the Earth and the Moon.'
http://www.sfsite.com/05b/freewar2.htm" (rucker quote from "freeware" 4/24/2009 9:49:00 PM) |
| "Thanks, I added an entry for moldies." (Bill Christensen 4/26/2009 10:14:14 PM) |
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