{"id":57608,"date":"2017-05-22T17:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-have-created-liquid-metal-drops-that-move-like-t-1000"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:16","slug":"scientists-have-created-liquid-metal-drops-that-move-like-t-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-have-created-liquid-metal-drops-that-move-like-t-1000","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Created Liquid Metal Drops That Move Like T-1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-created-liquid-metal-drops-that-move-like-t-1000.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the NSA confirming the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nsa-leak-confirms-skynet-is-for-real\">existence of Skynet<\/a>, we all should be grateful that technology has not yet advanced to the stage where a liquid metal T-1000 terminator can shape-shift its way into your home and demand to see John Connor.<\/p>\n<p>But scientists in China are making a solid effort make a less sinister version of this scenario at reality, by creating liquid metal droplets that could one day make \u201cself-powered liquid metal machines\u201d a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Because of their excellent conductivity, low toxicity, and shape-shifting abilities, liquid metal alloys have been put to good use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-developed-liquid-metal-nano-terminators-to-target-cancer-cells\">in targeting cancer cells<\/a>, creating nature-inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/wol1\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.201405438\/abstract\">self-fuelled motors for robots<\/a>, and many other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/09506608.2016.1271090\">liquid metal biomaterials.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-created-liquid-metal-drops-that-behave-like-t-1000\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-created-liquid-m...ike-t-1000<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the NSA confirming the existence of Skynet, we all should be grateful that technology has not yet advanced to the stage where a liquid metal T-1000 terminator can shape-shift its way into your home and demand to see John Connor. But scientists in China are making a solid effort make a less sinister version [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57608","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=57608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57652,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57608\/revisions\/57652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}