The folks that brought you the Internet are still at it.

The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the invention of a ‘blob-like’ robot which is able to inflate and deflate it’s body through a process called ‘jamming’, in which the robot’s synthetic (silicone) skin is changed back and forth from solid to semi-fluid states.

The so-called “chembot” will be used to  assist in military and search and rescue operations where it would be called upon to  slip through small cracks, holes, and crevices in that very special way that only animate blobs can do.

You gotta love it when you can give any ol’ piece of creepy technology a cutesy wutsey pokeman-esque  nickname and swear up and down that it’s only practical value is for saving innocent lives.

Yeah riiiiight.

This Article from 9News Australia can be found here >>.