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Remember when Robert Patrick was riding that Police motorcycle chasing Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day? Maybe you don't, but we’re pretty sure the image of him melting down and taking all sorts of forms is still quite fresh in your memory. What would you say if we were to tell you that Chinese researchers claim they have just developed a similar machine?
Of course it could be useful in the automotive industry. Not only would it create new perspectives in the way carmakers would design their factories, but we might find ourselves driving cars that take the shape of a one-bedroom hut when it’s not being used as a commuting machine. Just imagine that for a second!
Meanwhile, let us take a closer look and see if it’s actually possible. These machines are made of liquid metals and are reportedly able to shift shapes exactly like T-1000 robot in Terminator 2 did. According to Xinhuanet, researchers from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the medical school of Tsinghua University found a liquid metal that basically eats substances and then propels itself like a self-fueled motor.
Wow, that’s quite freaky. Yet, it seems to be a real deal, since the research was published in the Advanced Materials journal recently. To be more precise, when these machines were fed with small pieces of aluminum a liquid metal ball formed with a diameter of 5 millimeters. Moreover, the monster resulted could even move spontaneously in various solutions and structured channels for more than an hour at a speed of 5 centimeters per second.
“The biomimetic mollusk is highly self-adaptive and closely conforms to the geometrical space it is in,” scientists wrote in the paper, according to the source. Is it possible? Judging by what these people claim, it is. Will we need some confirmation from other scientists? Definitely.
Meanwhile, we’ll exercise more just in case machines really will start a war against human beings and we’ll need to take them all down.
Meanwhile, let us take a closer look and see if it’s actually possible. These machines are made of liquid metals and are reportedly able to shift shapes exactly like T-1000 robot in Terminator 2 did. According to Xinhuanet, researchers from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the medical school of Tsinghua University found a liquid metal that basically eats substances and then propels itself like a self-fueled motor.
Wow, that’s quite freaky. Yet, it seems to be a real deal, since the research was published in the Advanced Materials journal recently. To be more precise, when these machines were fed with small pieces of aluminum a liquid metal ball formed with a diameter of 5 millimeters. Moreover, the monster resulted could even move spontaneously in various solutions and structured channels for more than an hour at a speed of 5 centimeters per second.
“The biomimetic mollusk is highly self-adaptive and closely conforms to the geometrical space it is in,” scientists wrote in the paper, according to the source. Is it possible? Judging by what these people claim, it is. Will we need some confirmation from other scientists? Definitely.
Meanwhile, we’ll exercise more just in case machines really will start a war against human beings and we’ll need to take them all down.
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