{"id":13957,"date":"2015-04-07T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13957"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:59:58","slug":"terminator-draws-closer-with-shape-shifting-liquid-metal-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/terminator-draws-closer-with-shape-shifting-liquid-metal-motor","title":{"rendered":"Terminator draws closer with shape-shifting liquid metal motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profiles\/michelle_starr\/\" rel=\"author\"> Michelle Starr<\/a> \u2014 C\/net<br \/> There are some concepts from sci-fi that really should never, ever see the light of day. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-1000\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">T-1000<\/a> \u2014 the murderous robot made of shifting liquid metal \u2014 is arguably one of them, but that doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t exhibit some interesting ideas, even if they do seem impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Seem, of course, being the operative word \u2014 because researchers in China have just created the world\u2019s first liquid metal robot that can both change shape and power itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe soft machine looks rather intelligent and [can] deform itself according to the space it voyages in, just like [the] Terminator does from the science-fiction film,\u201d Jing Liu from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn27127-liquid-metal-brings-shapeshifting-robot-a-step-closer.html#.VQIbfvmUd8E\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">New Scientist<\/a>. \u201cThese unusual behaviours perfectly resemble the living organisms in nature.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/terminator-draws-closer-with-shape-shifting-liquid-metal-motor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michelle Starr \u2014 C\/net There are some concepts from sci-fi that really should never, ever see the light of day. The T-1000 \u2014 the murderous robot made of shifting liquid metal \u2014 is arguably one of them, but that doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t exhibit some interesting ideas, even if they do seem impossible. Seem, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1635,1806],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-materials","category-skynet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64771,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions\/64771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}