Metamorphosing robot
A report from New Scientist on a shape-shifting robot that consists of a chain of reconfigurable components. It looks pretty cool:
I couldn’t find a video anywhere though (with only a quick search, admittedly). Trawling for a video, I did, however, stumble across RobotHaven, which looks like a great source if you like robots and mechanical beasties. Shame it doesn’t have a syndication feed though.