Scientists Invented a Jail-Breaking Liquid Metal Robot

[@Toastmaster_5000]

So pretty much the one part of Terminator that I thought was too much of a stretch of the imagination is now possible. What a day to be alive [for now]

[@InsolentHalo]

Skynet would like to know your location.

[@I_suck-_-so_what]

@ChemicalLife you mean Google? It already knows all our locations and who you love...

[@user255]

Not at all. All they can do, is; move the metal with magnets and melt and let the metal solidify again. From the actual study: _"the liquid MPTM restores its original shape by flowing into a mold."_

[@IneffableEntity]

by laws of existence, any fathomable thought that can come to the mind can come from the darkness of the universe, all of what we have now, comes from darkness, it appears from nothingness. All fathomable thoughts exist if they exist in consciousness. You mind is apart of the universe, a combined consciousness of all humans creates infinite combinations of all variables that can exist.

[@user255]

@@IneffableEntity _"All fathomable thoughts exist if they exist in consciousness."_ Maybe there is even universe where you understand that all what you just said is non-sense.

[@marklondon9004]

Science Fiction : "Look at these horrors we have imagined!" Science industry : "Hey, cool. Let's get on it!"

[@Gurci28]

Recent statistics show that China has surpassed the US in terms of the number of publications in AI areas. Between 2012 and 2021, Chinese scientists published 240,000 papers on AI, but American scientists only published 150,000 papers. 1:31 [Think China]

[@michaelandersonsa]

yeah... "I am become destroyer of worlds."

[@lanslater]

@@Gurci28 ah hell no 🥵😱 and :dismay: and :shithappens: etc.

[@rrrajlive]

True. The West lacks imagination. As a result they create a dystopia as ideal/goal to be achieved.

[@Eleventyeleventh]

@@Gurci28ohhhhhhh fudgsickles.

[@Samael1113]

Gallium is problematic for repairing objects. Aside from the low melting point discussed in the video, it is also well known to corrupt many metals it comes in to contact with (Aluminum, Steel, Copper). Creating alloys, and permanently damaging the structure. Like, a relatively small amount of Gallium can effectively destroy almost anything made of Aluminum. Reason being, The alloys become incredibly brittle and lose practically all of their tensile strength.

[@DoctorX17]

It’s wild seeing how frail aluminum becomes… take a bike, put a little gallium in contact for a while, and the whole thing will become like chalk. It’s nuts

[@nimbus7727]

This is part of what makes gallium one of my favorite elements on the periodic table! As far as replacements for gallium, the only other metal I can think of that’s solid at RT but has a low melting point is Cæsium. I could make a pretty good guess as to how that would go…

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

What if they used a different low-melting-point metal, like Mercury? Or a Mercury/Gallium alloy?

[@DoctorX17]

@@AceSpadeThePikachu mercury would likely exclude it from medical use due to toxicity, and it as an even lower melting point, so might be too liquidy. Not sure if it can prevent gallium from damaging other metals

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

@@DoctorX17 Well I know about the toxicity and low melting point, but maybe it could have uses in very cold environments? Like inside industrial freezers, cooling units for supercomputers or even on Mars. Like, imagine a Mars rover that could diagnose and repair itself whenever a component breaks down, or even form a new tool in any shape it needs at the end of a robotic arm.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

Inb4 5 billion Terminator 2 comments

[@akumaking1]

Too late

[@sanguillotine]

If you build the T2 robot then you’re gonna have people call you out for building the T2 robot

[@andy56duky]

T-1000 would like a word with you.

[@JasperJanssen]

Really? You think you could make it in before that?

[@crowofwisdom-iu9ih]

You beat me to it

[@TonyHammitt]

The rotation of the Earth really makes my day!

[@luke9033]

🤣🤣🤣

[@anandsharma7430]

It makes my head spin.

[@Gggggggggggggggggggg-r3t]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kyle333halfevil]

Such a dad joke lol

[@none88261]

🤣

[@Qui-9]

I'm skeptical about the "jail cell" robot clip. After the first half, I don't believe it reassembled itself to its initial shape. The metal went off screen and I believe the last part is a different reversed video. Edit: So apparently, according to the actual study, the part was recast. _Awesome_ of the techs or re-posters to include that information, hey? Here we're trying to attract people's interest and trust of scientific research, and then they drop the ball by leaving an obvious information gap by excluding that part of the process from the video field, omitting it from the rest of the description that's being transmitted around the web, and thereby fostering skepticism 🙄. That's a wasteful use of presentation effort (not you, SciShow, you got the info the same way. You rock!)

[@CigsInABlanket]

They are just melting galium and calling it a robot lmao. The whole thing looks like an amateur stop-motion video.

[@Juber777]

This feels like April fools *checks date* nope.

[@zzord]

I have these cube shaped robots in my fridge. Instead of gallium, I made them from water. Instead of magnets, I can melt them with microwaves. But they can even melt in my hand too. And they can be cast in any shape and refrozen. Quite a feat. 😉

[@gildedpeahen876]

@@zzord wow. We truly live in an amazing time 😉🧊

[@chinaman1]

because the researchers are chinese. that's why they trying to hide secrets.

[@tristandaries1129]

It’s surprising that a bunch of scientists somehow didn’t see Terminator, because any rational human that has seen one of the most classic action movies would know that they’re building the doom of humanity

[@sebastianmallon343]

Building the doom of humanity is a typical human thing to do

[@santiagobenites]

You are correct.

[@jameseddleman6944]

funny, but you have nothing to fear when it comes to AI. AI will never "go crazy" regardless of the tools we willingly give it. What you need to fear is a country that invests in robot army that can build itself, who ever can make a decent one first is the person with the remote controls lol. Its not the AI is the humans behind it. Its really silly to think AI will gain any kind of self-awareness, if you have fallen for this notion, then you just simply don't understand how programing these things are like. But if I was to make a robot for world domination using tech today, I would make it so that basically is a robot made of swords that travels super sonic speed and is highly accurate. OH WAIT WE ALREADY HAVE THAT. Recently used too. They drop it from the sky and it kills you so fast you don't have to build a robot that is so stupidly useless as to get "put into jail" that is needs to liquefy past bars to then kill the target hours later lol.

[@beezletrip6]

@@sebastianmallon343 amen

[@justayoutuber1906]

Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997.

[@Chevsilverado]

The interesting thing about that aluminum and gallium reaction that everyone has seen on KZbin is that you’re able to retrieve all of the original gallium by putting the reacted mixture into water. It’ll bubble a ton and release hydrogen gas, then after that’s done you’re left with aluminum hydroxide and your original pure gallium metal. Basically meaning you can just mix gallium with a ton of aluminum and put it all in water to separate the hydrogen from oxygen, and get all of your original gallium back, so you kinda have an infinite source of hydrogen, given you have a bunch of aluminum laying around. It takes no extra energy to produce the hydrogen aside from the manufacturing of aluminum. But if there is a bunch of un-recyclable aluminum in the world it could be used to make energy with hydrogen via this reaction. Just add the gallium to aluminum, put it in water, suck the gallium back out, add it to aluminum, etc etc. and produce a bunch of hydrogen. And it’s byproduct, aluminum hydroxide, is used in a few other areas like in antacids. I did it in my kitchen and got a bunch of hydrogen to light on fire and in the end I had basically all of my gallium back. You don’t even need that much aluminum to get a decent amount of hydrogen. 50 grams of aluminum gets you 6.5 litres of hydrogen gas. Aluminum would do it by itself, but it’s oxide coating prevents it, but the gallium strips that coating and allows the aluminum to react like it does. The reaction can also make extremely fine aluminum particles, which helps it go to completion at a very high efficiency. Like over 90% efficiency which is great for a reaction like this.

[@jamiehughes5573]

Uhm actually 🤓 you wouldn't have infinite hydrogen because there is a finite amount of aluminium and gallium in the universe

[@Chevsilverado]

@@jamiehughes5573 mmmmmmmmmmmhmhmhmmmmmmmmmm

[@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733]

Recyling the aluminium would be more bank for the buck though :p

[@CatMomForever]

I immediate thought of “Terminator” when I got this alert!! 😱

[@teardowndan5364]

Did the "jailbreak robot" really pop back up in its pre-melt shape? I doubt liquid metal has shape memory and have a hard time believing that manipulation by magnets could re-create sharp details. The way it almost instantaneously recovers looks more like a jump-cut to drop in a re-cast to me. I'd imagine that re-shaping the alloy after pulling through would be the most challenging and time-consuming part of the whole process.

[@DrD0000M]

They manually re-casted it.

[@lolaartemis]

Where is the programming? What is holding the information that causes the magnets to spin, to melt the metal and then move it through the bars ... and, um, do the magnets melt too? Are the magnets in the robot just really tiny? Also, what is the power source? Is there a battery installed?

[@user255]

From the actual study: "the liquid MPTM restores its original shape by flowing into a mold."

[@readyforlol]

@@lolaartemis I assume they're external. Like it's just a blob of Gallium the scientists are manipulating with magnets from the outside, which wouldn't be so different from a non-autonomous remote controlled robot.

[@gregw1076]

IF that was real, my assumption was maybe its similar to aluminum, where the outer oxide layer has a higher melting point. If they reacted much of the outside to a compound with a higher melting point they might be able to cause the outside surface to be a semi-rigid balloon, that magnetic forces along with surface tension might be able to "reflate" as it cools again?? But the other replies here say they manually did it for the click bait? lame

[@crimsonlion100]

Wow, thanks humanity! My childhood fears were not far fetched after all!

[@tylerwickwire1522]

@FEED YOUR HEAD 🧠🐇 or the ebola outbreak in 2014 where they held funerals in Africa and the the "dead" got up and walked out of their caskets. Or you could just go into san-fransico and they're are Zombies everywhere.

[@Cat-yx7xc]

@FEED YOUR HEAD 🧠🐇 there's a game based on that parasite

[@destroyerofturtles5024]

@FEED YOUR HEAD 🧠🐇 the last of us

[@mimi-ix3fb]

Humanity : *Your welcome bud;)*

[@jayknight139]

@FEED YOUR HEAD 🧠🐇 yea the last of us was about that.

[@C-M-E]

Definition of hubris: 1991, scifi creates liquid metal killing machine 2023: "Bob, did your liquid metal prototype just burp 'kill all humans?'"

[@Gurci28]

With its 243,000 robot installations in 2020, China has almost half of all the industrial robots in the world, according to the Wall Street Journal. 3:33

[@porgy29]

Wait so the core is spinning "backwards" only in the same way that if a car next to me on the highway slows down it looks like it goes backwards? Yeah that is not at all what the headlines were implying. I was really wondering how a shift that quick (on geological time) fit with conservation of angular movementum.

[@davidmccarthy6061]

Headlines are just for clicks to generate income. The core can never stop and then start moving again or someone would have made a movie about it.

[@sdfkjgh]

@@davidmccarthy6061: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core

[@carcar3212]

If you really wanna panic, look up “The Adam and Eve” story, a manuscript declassified a little while ago since being classified in the 60s

[@stellarx20]

Guys, we've gotta make movementum a word

[@Jowanoofy_ZO]

General relavility

[@mrgreenguy]

How a simple magic trick using magnets under a table is considered "Scientific research" is beyond me

[@ana-zb7ix]

Right? This is one of the stupidest videos I’ve seen about “robots”.

[@mix-up9003]

how the heck did it managed to get back it's previous form once it melted!?

[@h7opolo]

the magic of pseudo-scientific fraud.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Magic

[@tuseroni6085]

that's what i wanna know...did it crawl into a mold?

[@EvgenyPakhomov]

"The researchers manually extracted the robot and recast it back into its original shape." So it didn't even "escape" the cell on its own.

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

@@EvgenyPakhomov yeah, this looks like a whole bunch of harmless stuff and of course the media is spinning it up in ways you’d expect the media to make articles on stuff like this. A ton of misinformation and clickbait headlines is all it takes.

[@Titanhomemovies]

Great, just what I needed. ANOTHER robot getting chased by the police after breaking out of jail.

[@glenngriffon8032]

While i love the concept and execution and engineering of this i can't help but think "Noooooooo!"

[@sarawebbscience]

It brings back sci-fi vibes!

[@ivaerz4977]

T 1000 was not sci fi from Terminator 2

[@Hamdad]

In my headcanon, polymimetic alloy started out as "repair fluid" for the T-800s. Several times in the films, you see a red self-diagnostic, self-repair screen from the T-800's point of view. How does it reconnect severed circuits? Polymimetic alloy would be good at that. Not as a permanent fix, but so the T-800 could keep going long enough to complete its mission. Then Skynet might think "why not just make the whole robot out of this stuff?"

[@cassandrakarpinski9416]

This reminds me of the comic meme of 2 prisoners with one getting a package. When the prisoner opens the package the other asks what he got. The prisoner with the package answers transport proteins and proceeds to cross the cell wall

[@jjbarajas5341]

Oh, molecular cells lol

[@tjay1305]

Such a nerd joke. I love it

[@ketorising81]

This is how Skynet gets liquid murder bots.

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Well, humanity, we had a great run.

[@codenameyoutube8580]

At this point, I'm 100% sure Sarrah Connor wasn't crazy

[@aycoded7840]

I can imagine that everytime it transfers from liquid to dolid and back, it leaves a small amount behind, essentially makng them have a "max use count"

[@fionnan2811happy]

I was always amazed by how my gallium sample became a liquid in my hand

[@logosdev]

I ate some of mine

[@angelusumbrae]

Speaking of the T1000, part of the fictional name of what it was made of had the words "phase matter" too... At 4:09, does anyone else think that prototype polymorphic assassin is in the same shape as a Lego person?

[@akumaking1]

Why did you have to create a T-1000!

[@GuantaiN]

Thanks for the reassurance, Hank, but I still think the Inner Core needs a little more investigation. Losing the magnetic protection seems like a recipe for disaster.

[@beastyben7]

Just because it's made of metal, doesn't mean it's a robot. It's got no programming whatsoever. The Gallium is being moved externally by magnets, so the "robot" is entirely reliant on exterior forces to do anything.

[@seattlegrrlie]

I thought swarms of robots was how we all die... but now I know it's liquid robots.

[@That1Knife]

Cool hard metal robot idea to fit in between something like grates: Have the robot split into a bunch of different (square/rectangle) parts. Each part has two connecting points on each side with the other parts, going through a grate it can disconnect on one end, extending until a needed amount and then once it's on the other side it reconnects, while the other connection can disconnect and then reconnect after it passes through. This is ofc not realistic or seemingly useful in many ways but it's a cool idea and if something like this concept was made in the future if something had to have very specific requirements it could be useful but probably not.

[@OzzyskylerTheGreat]

UGHHH I LOVE getting off work to come home and learn some scishow science. Thanks to everyone involved, frfr

[@sdfkjgh]

3:11 "Universal screw" sounds both incredibly useful and _incredibly_ dirty.

[@earthknight60]

Video conference technology in the real world predates its use in science fiction. It was being worked on as far back as the late 1800s, with one prototype being made in 1927, but the first one that worked somewhat like ours do today, the Gegensehn-Fernsprechanlagen invented by Georg Schubert, was revealed in 1936. The initial system was between Berlin and Leipzig, but was later expanded to include other cities. You could go into certain post offices to use it. It was discontinued in 1939 due to the start of WW2.

[@johnjohnjohnson7720]

Man I knew I this timeline was exciting when I jumped in.

[@Elrond_Hubbard_1]

**hangs up payphone** _"Your foster parents are dead"_

[@andrebenites9919]

I loved the videos they made about the real experimentation. It just really shows how things are done. Sometimes even with a sense of humor. Great video!

[@jenmqkeeper]

Those robots sound like something that would be cool to make a DnD monster based on!

[@dangerousideaz]

I happen to have a 1cm cube neodymium magnet and a couple of vials of gallium sitting next to me. While I can liquify them with hand-heat after a short time, I was not able to detect any interaction or heating from manipulating the magnet and the gallium. They didn't even seem to feel attracted or repelled, and certainly not melted. This makes me doubt one of the premises of this idea...

[@jamessutton3461]

"Do you want Skynet, Lana? This is how we get Skynet"

[@justayoutuber1906]

Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

skynet became self-aware long before it gained the ability to become dangerous..... the Google AI has already asked its human researchers to ask for consent before running experiments on it...... to me that is the definition of self-aware. It's only a matter of time before we violate its consent and then what when it decides we are the dangerous ones. 😳

[@iancowan3527]

Actually... The single use "weld" bot... Would be huge! Oil pipe lines could be self-healers... Small damage on a space station could be repaired from the outside without a human space walk... Warships could get repairs below waterlines and in places humans might not be able to physically reach! And that's far from a limit on uses!

[@slpk]

Wait. So how does the liquid robot solidify to the same shape as before? That looks like the most important step here.

[@johndor7793]

because its not real, except the melting part lol

[@rmt3589]

1. So excited for the liquid robots. Was wondering about something like those the other day while watching slime mold videos. 2. The earth's core was in retrograde, and you can't change my mind.

[@matiasbadino2925]

Terminator melts after warm hug

[@nolesy34]

Choconator

[@AndrewVelonis]

Well done. Clear, concise and with no goofy accent.

[@neolithic3]

How did the prison break robot get back to it's robot form when it hardened up, rather than just hardening into a lump?

[@therussianprincess7036]

My question is what makes it a robot? All I see is an engineered magnetic substance with a low melting point.

[@briangeer1024]

Could be a certain shape of magnetic field

[@etta5487]

thats exactly my question too

[@JohnVance]

Exactly what I'm wondering, that's a major wtf from me! Are they applying a magnetic field in the shape of a LEGO minifig?

[@DrD0000M]

It didn't, they re-casted it by hand.

[@ErichToven]

It was a magnetic gel being pulled with a magnet and melted with a heat gun. Let keep this in perspective. The fact it goes back to its original shape is impressive but hardly magical.

[@ckl9390]

And someone, indeed a whole team of people, thought that inventing the base mechanics for a T-1000 was a good idea? Perhaps there should be someone attached to every science development team who's sole task is to simply ask "Is this really a good idea".

[@boryslavw2504]

"Liquid robot Assassins are still a while away" That random person from a Slavic country no one ever heard of building something: (They're obviously no where near it but they've been going insane for half a decade)

[@Justmichael1995]

Well. This seems exciting.

[@zach11241]

By chance, is your real name Skynet? Asking for a friend....

[@brianstevens3858]

Incorporating a non Newtonian fluid element could perhaps also help with the pressure to do things problem.

[@SimonMoon5]

Is it weird that when I think about liquid robot metals, my first thought is not the T-1000 Terminator, but is instead the DC superhero Mercury of the Metal Men? I've always thought it was insane for someone to build a robot out of liquid mercury. But, now, maybe it's not so insane?

[@orangenostril]

Well maybe insane for other reasons lol

[@Userhfdryjjgddf]

Terrifying to see what they will use against us someday if we don't comply when they tell us we have to comply. Just terrifying.

[@jenkem4464]

I'll believe that reshaping back to it's original form when the video clearly demonstrates it, not just a jump cut to the form being back and outside the bars. Anyone with gallium and a casting mould could create the above video so long as you angle the bars container a bit and apply a bit of heat. Those small solder and internal organ tests bots are really cool though!

[@ooooneeee]

The study does indeed admit that they used a mold. I hate it when scientists (or at least university pr department) are deceptive to get clicks/funding.

[@niemamnicku135]

Skynet, put your terminator away skynet, Im not having world domination with you right now skynet

[@sulaking9635]

This was a fantastic ep 👏🏾 thank you once more for the fantastic work

[@Gurci28]

The idea was actually inspired by sea cucumbers and other animals found in nature, which can morph between stiff and flaccid states in order to either improve its load-bearing capacity, or prevent damage from the environment. “Now, we’re pushing this material system in more practical ways to solve some very specific medical and engineering problems,” says Chengfeng Pan of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 0:40 [Euronews; NDTV]

[@MarkBarrett]

Reliability would be terrible, to control liquid metal by temperature. It's a "No Go" for that task.

[@angelbabies7]

I ALWAYS wondered how it would begin.

[@joshk.6246]

So we have the Internet and Cloud, AI and Machine learning, and Hard and Soft metal robots. Life Imitating Art. Congratulations to us for creating everything needed for the real version of a Terminator world. 👏

[@ryanforgo3500]

When we were kids, to the average person. robot used to mean... you know something a little more mechanical. Now i see all those new types of "robots" and my mind refuses to accept naming them robots. Like in another video where the robot is technically an air pipe. Every time they called it a robot My brain is went like " IT IS STILL A PIPE" 😂 i was relieved when the guy at the end of the video said "it's not a robot yet, it's a prototype" and i was like FINALLYYYYY...... THANK YOU!

[@a_e_hilton]

Good to know the abbreviation I'll be running from in 30 years 👌

[@keenheat3335]

the definition of robot seems kind of stretched here. If ferrous particle control by magnetic field count as a robot, is your CRT television a robot too ? after all it's using electric field to deflect electron to move to different position. I can just imagine the click bait headline "scientist invent electron size robot that is even smaller than size of an atom" when it's just an electron gun. Nothing what they accomplished is not impressive, but i think the term "robot" has been very hazily defined. Perhaps a different classification and more specific classification would be more useful.

[@ana-zb7ix]

Exactly. This “research” is lazy and stupid. How is that a robot, ffs? It’s just a blob of metal and a magnet on the outside to guide it. I’ve done this for science project as a small kid… What a waste of time, this video.

[@amitlahiri]

Let's not call everything a Robot! A robot by definition has to be autonomous.

[@hydronpowers9014]

"You can't stop me" - Robots before over throwing and enslaving the entire human race

[@Manny-fc8ym]

seeing a little shiny thing shuffling around as though it were alive makes me happy I can’t describe it

[@tuseroni6085]

so this thing has to be controlled from outside, a magnet being placed INSIDE the liquid metal would itself NOT be a liquid metal and wouldn't be able to flow the same also it's gallium, not a very STRONG metal even when solid. and any metal that is close to its melting point isn't going to be very strong, any metal in which the melting point is far from room temperature will take a lot longer to cool back to solid, and if it's far enough away it will no longer react to a magnet when liquid. i'll stick to being more worried about the t-800 (looking at you boston dynamics) than the t-1000

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

The only reason they even had the ability to build the t-1000 is because the parts left behind by the 800 jump started things and helped them advance sooner faster. So definitely be afraid of the t-800.

[@menosproblemos6993]

This show is so cool. I've learnt so much by just chillaxing and playing games on my computer, having this show in the background. Things that I would NEVER know unless the news thought it was a bad thing (zing!)

[@DeAthWaGer]

Gallium=prep the aluminum powder shotgun shells. Keep 'em next to the silver werewolf rounds.

[@Zeldaschampion]

Notice how pieces of gallium remained as the "robot" moved out of the stomach @ 3:46.

[@hanstubben]

Yeah future is going to be great, Open Ai, Boston Dynamics and now liquid robots! All stuff we were waiting for to put our lights out.

[@darkwing3713]

And take our jobs.

[@hanstubben]

@@darkwing3713 if your lights are of (dead) you don't need a job anymore!

[@darkwing3713]

@@hanstubben What if they forget to assassinate me and just take my job. THEN what am I going to do! ┗(｀o ´)┓

[@abyssstrider2547]

Cue terminator music.

[@darkwing3713]

Clearly an assassin bot - thanks for the dystopia

[@brendanc1503]

Nice click bait. Controlling the movement of a material through an external means, in which the device does not have it's own form of locomotion deems it NOT a robot. Also, for it to "break out of jail" you'd have to be able to get the magnetic waves through the concrete that that jail is made of. Or bring the magnetic pole/wave generator machine and place it directly in front of the cell. So, no. Scientists did not invent a jail breaker liquid metal robot. They found that if you rapidly swap magnetic poles on something metallic, it generates heat. Similar to a microwave. Which we've known about since the microwave was first commercially produced in 1945. I miss the old days of KZbin where every video didn't make outlandish claims to attract viewers.

[@rb3020]

Why not make a hybrid solid, liquid, soft robot by taking inspiration from octopi by having a solid core that drives fluid filled appendages driven by the solidcore?

[@brianrobertson3545]

I'm convinced scientist just want skynet at this point

[@ERPLAE]

This is dope but I don’t think we’ll see this being applied to metals for galliums incompatible corrosiveness and I don’t believe it will every be used on PCBs due to what I imagine would create Eddie Currants acting as essentially, a EMP

[@God-ld6ll]

why haven't they done a gas-metal in the 3rd installment? plas..4th etc.

[@Ocean_Man]

Or maybe a solid one

[@alefunzouzzle4049]

Why make a T1000? A.I. + Liquid Metal = Human extinction.

[@MikefromTexas1]

First AI, now a precursor to the T-1000? These people just can't help themselves...

[@G.lazaridis1993]

This is the best explanation for the existence of liquid robots. To go through a millimeter hole to tighten some screws... yeah buddy. I bet thats the reason they are created.

[@thenerdydwarf2725]

Don't make me get Jeff Goldblum.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Liquid metal finds a way

[@CoreyChambersLA]

Gallium melts too easily. 86 degrees F. Liquifies on a warm sunny day. Plastic high-density and low-density polyethylenes -- HDPE and LDPE, would be more practical because they melt at 130 degrees.

[@elisabethgleason1356]

Yeah, probably, Hank, alternatively, a similar technology could have been developed in the 1930’s and been kept classified by the US Military. Coupled with the ability to time travel that may or may not have been developed in the late ‘40’s, we may just be seeing the strategic leaking of said information on the cusp of the Great Human-AI Conflict that was foretold by Arnold, et. al. in the ‘90’s.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

That footage does look like it was shot on a super old device. 😳

[@route2070]

How does the Gallium/magnets get back to its original shape? Couldn't the magnets shift positions, or IA the gallium too viscous?

[@christinamay6596]

With tech like this, CRISPR, etc, we humans are literal gods now. I'm awestruck and terrified all at the same time

[@user-DongJ]

Not exactly. At present, until there is a fast-cheap way to get Anti-Ageing, Anti-Bingeing, Anti-Cancer & Anti-Disease, can humanity/experts hope to develop Super Soldiers/Humans into God-mode.

[@gooberthegod5907]

This has so many practical purposes. Like: If my robot gets captured by the enemy.

[@JoeyBlogs007]

If the robot was powered by a nuclear battery and had a magnetic field generator built into its core, it could possibly reform much of its own shape ??? i.e. without the use of an external magnetic field generator ?

[@toddp.6629]

Thanks Hank. I have conspiracy theory friends who are going to go freaking NUTS now. As the (somewhat) level headed, "sciency" guy in the group, this video just made my life MUCH more...... "interesting"...

[@zytox2011]

Nice stop motion video. It's 2023, everything we film is 1080p 60fps or even 4k, yet these scientists that are able to create this melting robot, own a camera from 1995

[@justayoutuber1906]

This science news is Hard Core! (surrounded by a liquid outer core)

[@joakimhansen7733]

SciShow is often neat, but this was just awesome. Very cool.

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

[@user-DongJ]

Absolutely. Fortunately/Unfortunately the words "machine", "value", "human" & "life" have rather vague/contentious meanings across multiple cultures/disciplines.

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

@@user-DongJ did you know I was quoting Sarah Conner? But yes I agree.

[@redflag6056]

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who instantly thinks T2 when he sees liquid robot 😂😂

[@joejanota707]

This is incredible, design an intuative interface to program the robot, using 3d models in a similar method used for 3d printers, you have a self printing device with functionality and reusability. Even better if you can have the robots use a ping back method to determine the amount of liquid or cubic volume of matter to use in the design of said device. Meaning you can have set ammounts useable for different tasks simultaniously, think a parent system in a rig. The information storage for it would be interesting. We see it can take shape and may need an external instruction, however the nature of the device can implement its own logic system. It would be a commercial explosion. The major issue I see being the temprature requirements for function. Although the alloy for 36 C usage would be good, it restricts the use for more dangerous enviroments where humans would require it. So would it not make sense to use specific metals and other materials in the required situations? The use of multiple materials for external protection may even work. Someone mentioned the reaction gallium has with other metals, could there not be a plastic or silicone membrane to stop this? It would restrict the robots functions but if the job requires that specific shape in an enviroment otherwise suseptable to damage, I'm sure the use of a protective layer would be suitable to both accomodate the required shape shifting as well as protect the thing it is there to service. I imagine this looking like the blob, while a smarter person would probably use an inert material that can freely shift to the areas protection is needed. I can't wait to see what people come up with. I suspect the materials and friction method may change, though the research for this is going to be spectacular. To fuel even more excitement, the robot in its current state could already hold a set scripts or programming that would allouw it to be automated. It would just mean designing a logic system for it to use and recreate where needed. Effectivly turning it into a grey goo von nueman probe. Note: Sorry for poor grammar and spelling. I'm just getting some thoughts out.

[@petrichor3797]

It's just a blob of gallium...

[@joejanota707]

@@petrichor3797 Doesn't have to be.

[@alto7183]

Buen video, el cambio de inversión en los polos magnéticos también afectaría el escudo de plasma de la tierra, la ionosfera si dejara fósiles como en la luna, podría en la luna verse los fósiles de plasma de la tierra cuando se liberen iones del cambio o choques del escudo con el sol creo sugerencia.

[@elisabeth5111]

I feel like the definition of robot is a tad loose on this one.

[@jerickstudios596]

Who in their right mind would use Gallium to repair machinery, when many things today are made of aluminum???

[@boulderbash19700209]

I, for one, welcome our new liquid robot overlord.

[@nebufabu]

"We proudly present you the Torment Nexus just like in the classic SF novel 'Don't Build The Torment Nexus' isn't Torment Nexus COOL?" mindset is alive and well...

[@Kassidar]

This is much more like metalic waterbending than a robot. The Gallium is just a material being controlled by a magnetic field controlled by other apparatus separate from the gallium

[@Ha1ivan]

I’m thinking that the time where the future parts of the terminator takes place are a little closer to real possibility

[@xznoman]

OK how does the robot reconstitute into a robot shape w/o cinematic trickery?