{"id":103345,"date":"2020-03-06T07:43:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-want-to-build-robots-out-of-floating-liquid-metal"},"modified":"2020-03-06T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:43:59","slug":"scientists-want-to-build-robots-out-of-floating-liquid-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-want-to-build-robots-out-of-floating-liquid-metal","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Build Robots out of Floating Liquid Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-want-to-build-robots-out-of-floating-liquid-metal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers are hoping the extremely light material could be used to construct lightweight exoskeletons and shape-shifting \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u8h8d2XLWKY\">Terminator 2<\/a>\u201d-style robots, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2236129-liquid-metal-that-floats-on-water-could-make-transformable-robots\/\"><em>New Scientist<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u8h8d2XLWKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Glass Beads<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The researchers created a mixture of the soft metals gallium and indium, which had a melting point of just 15.7 Celsius (60.3 Fahrenheit). To make it float, the team gently stirred microscopic beads of glass, filled with air, into the liquid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers are hoping the extremely light material could be used to construct lightweight exoskeletons and shape-shifting \u201cTerminator 2\u201d-style robots, New Scientist reports. Glass Beads The researchers created a mixture of the soft metals gallium and indium, which had a melting point of just 15.7 Celsius (60.3 Fahrenheit). To make it float, the team gently [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}