Wei-Min Shen's Flexible Robots
June 10, 2005 , New Scientist
New Scientist reports in its June 11 issue on work by the Information Sciences Institute's Wei-Min Shen on robots that build themselves from "units that can join together to form ... a snake, or a multi-legged insect, or even curl up into a ring. ... Late last year NASA announced a $28 million grant to Shen's group."