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Robot turns itself to liquid to escape cage and then reforms just like in Terminator 2

Last year, Researchers from America's Carnegie Mellon University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong created a remarkable new piece of material.

This wasn't just any type of material though, as this new discovery can mimic the powers of the T-1000.

To those people: no one said you couldn't, we said you shouldn't.

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Researchers did assure the world that their robot mini was never tasked with the murder of John Connor, so that's nice.

Senior author Professor Carmel Majidi explained the science behind the shape shifting robot, revealing that magnetic particles come into play in two ways to facilitate the liquidation.

"One is that they make the material responsive to an alternating magnetic field, so you can, through induction, heat up the material and cause the phase change." she said, as per Matter.

"But the magnetic particles also give the robots mobility and the ability to move in response to the magnetic field.

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Scientists: we have built the unstoppable killer robot from the sci fi classic don't-build-killer-robots.

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monyet.cc

Funny how they couldn't provide anything more than a shitty low res picture to backup their incredible claim.

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Except the theme music. Slap a speaker on every robot playing "Buh buh bump ba bump." That will remind us to be wary.

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lemm.ee

Do they have a video of it in action? I only saw a picture on the article

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The video is great, there's no T2 style transformation going on, they just melt the metal, move it with a magnet, then cast it back into the original shape.

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I thought it looked more like one of those old lego animations you'd find on yt back in the mid-2000s

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