{"id":114019,"date":"2020-10-07T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/watch-this-new-shape-shifting-liquid-metal-can-move"},"modified":"2020-10-07T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:23:17","slug":"watch-this-new-shape-shifting-liquid-metal-can-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/watch-this-new-shape-shifting-liquid-metal-can-move","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: This New Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal Can Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/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\/ErCOTdIruoc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-this-new-robot-dog-is-incredible\">First we kick them<\/a>, then we give them the tools they need to destroy all of humanity. Good job, us.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in China have invented a liquid metal that can shape-shift and propel itself around a course all by itself.<\/p>\n<p>Made from a metal alloy containing mostly gallium \u2014 a metal that melts down to liquid form at just below 30 degrees Celsius \u2014 the world\u2019s \u201cfirst self-fuelled liquid metal motor\u201d can get about an hour\u2019s worth of movement out of a single flake of aluminium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 First we kick them, then we give them the tools they need to destroy all of humanity. Good job, us. Scientists in China have invented a liquid metal that can shape-shift and propel itself around a course all by itself. Made from a metal alloy containing mostly gallium \u2014 a metal that melts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114019","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}