{"id":156292,"date":"2023-01-26T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-made-a-liquid-metal-robot-that-can-escape-a-cage-like-a-terminator"},"modified":"2023-01-26T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:26:11","slug":"scientists-made-a-liquid-metal-robot-that-can-escape-a-cage-like-a-terminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-made-a-liquid-metal-robot-that-can-escape-a-cage-like-a-terminator","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Made a Liquid Metal Robot That Can Escape a Cage Like a Terminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-made-a-liquid-metal-robot-that-can-escape-a-cage-like-a-terminator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were also able to make a cute little LEGO man out of MPTM that liquefies itself and moves through the bars of a cage. Though the robot appears to self-coalesce into its original shape on the other side, Majidi clarified that it was manually recast by the team and then put back into the shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s almost T-1000-like in the sense that you have that figurine and it melts into a blob, and it gets sucked through those jail bars,\u201d Majidi said, adding that the villainous assassin android served as an inspiration for the robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were also able to make a cute little LEGO man out of MPTM that liquefies itself and moves through the bars of a cage. Though the robot appears to self-coalesce into its original shape on the other side, Majidi clarified that it was manually recast by the team and then put back into the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156292","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}