As such, being able to shift between solid and liquid allows the metal robot to move fast, but also to take advantage of the strength of a solid object when needed.

In its liquid form, the robot could be made to elongate, divide, and merge. In solid form, it was steered at speeds exceeding 3 mph and carried heavy objects up to 30 times its own weight.

Using an existing metal robot arm as a template, she cut and soldered her stained glass panels before reassembling the robot with its new solarpunk limbs. During testing though, one of the glass ...

The Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has created a rudimentary robot that can become a liquid on demand, a capability the lead author compared to the T-1000 from Terminator 2.

The tiny robot made from a mix of liquid metal and magnetic material can become soft or liquid and then reform as a solid again. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; Accessibility Help; ...

Shape-shifting liquid metal robots might not be limited to science fiction anymore. ... So the team turned to gallium, a metal that melts at about 30° Celsius — slightly above room temperature.