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Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal Robot

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They are "Terminators"
 
That and malevolent AI and you're just about there.
 
 
Gateman_Wen said:
It's a piece of gallium. You can melt it with a hair drier.

The video doesn't show it going back into shape.

Gonna call "bullshit".
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They used magnetism to shape it. That video does show it melting and re-solidifying, which is due to the application of magnetic fields.
 
sanman said:
They used magnetism to shape it. That video does show it melting and re-solidifying, which is due to the application of magnetic fields.
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I can do the same thing with a hairdryer, as previously stated.
 
Gateman_Wen said:
I can do the same thing with a hairdryer, as previously stated.
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Magnetism can shape the liquid, before re-solidification. The fields and their geometry can be manipulated.
The key to this is that there are magnetically responsive particles in the liquid gallium.
 
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