I had and idea come to me the other night as I was driving in my car." Pressure Differential Propulsion, as applied to Nano-technological advances."
When I was a child, my parents threw me a party. They supplied me and my friends with noise makers, "Party Favors," they are called. When I blew on it it unrolled and made a loud screaming noise. Remove the screamer,as it has no purpose for this application. Attach it to an air mattress.Perfectly sealed when you lay on the mattress it could extent to incredible lengths. When you get off the mattress it would return practically instantly to it's compressed state.
Couldn't this be used to move something an incredible distance and return it almost instantly with very little outside applied force?
The protruding appendage need not even be rolled.