DISCOVERIES
MINIATURE T-1000-STYLE ROBOT CAN SHIFT BETWEEN LIQUID AND SOLID STATES
PHYSICS
The researchers demonstrated the bot’s sci-fi-like ability by making it turn into a liquid to escape from a cage
The T-1000 featured in Terminator 2 used its ‘mimetic polyalloy’ construction to disguise itself and turn its limbs into weapons
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Researchersbased at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania have demonstrated a robot that can melt into a liquid and then reform into its original solid state, much like the terrifying T-1000 from the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day.