Controllably Morphable

We occasionally joke about the looming robot menace, but seriously. Discoblog has picked out the Niftiest Robots of 2009, but "Scariest" would have been an equally appropriate appellation. Yes, there is a robot that crawls around inside your colon, not to mention a Japanese emobot, but the one I would least like to meet in a dark alley is Chembot. It's a blob-shaped thing that uses jamming in granular materials to make a robot that can alter its shape. Still pretty primitive, but you can see where we're headed here. Don't say we didn't warn you.