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Like from a movieterminator 2‘ concerned, scientists managed to create robot which can change from liquid to solid in order to escape from the environment that requires it.
A research team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong has succeeded in creating robot which leaves the cell, turning into a liquid, and then returning to its original solid state.
Science fiction
In his study, published in the journal matterscientists noted that they used magnetic particles in galliuma metal with a very low melting point (29 °C) to be able to perform what they called “a magnetically active solid-liquid phase transition machine”.
robot called MPTM, is based on a magnetic field that induces an electric current to generate heat and the ability to change state.
“The figure is similar in size to a commercial LEGO figure: approximately five millimeters wide and one centimeter high. The magnetic field is used to turn it into a liquid and remove it from the case,” says Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering professor Carmel Majidi, who also participated in the project.
This property also allows them to jump 20 times their height, spin around themselves, and walk at a speed of one meter per second.
medical purposes
The authors of the project note that these robots They could provide security and lifeguard services that others cannot.
“Now we are advancing this materials system in more practical ways to solve some very specific medical and engineering problems. The temperature of the human body means that the metal with a higher melting point than galliumand the phase transition in liquids takes longer than in air, because it gives off heat faster to the environment,” says study leader Chengfeng Pan.
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