Researchers have created a new class of robots that can shift between solid and liquid forms on demand. In a series of tests, these new bots could change shape to run obstacle courses, carry objects, ...

A magnetic robot that can alternate between solid and liquid form may one day be used on soldering machines, screws for smart assembly and even delivering drugs to your stomach. Researchers at Sun Yat ...

A person-shaped robot liquifies to escape a cage, then cools back into its original shape in a mold placed in the ground outside the bars. Wang and Pan et al. under CC BY-SA Researchers have created a ...

Underwater octopuses change their body color and texture in the blink of an eye to blend perfectly into their surroundings ...

One of the many iconic moments in Terminator 2: Judgment Day was seeing the T-1000 briefly morph into a liquid to pass through the metal bars separating him from his target: a teenage John Connor. A ...

(Nanowerk News) International researchers have designed miniature legoman-like robots that can shift between liquid and solid states, like some kind of tiny T-1000 Terminator. The team put the ...

Solid robots can now move, melt and reform like the T-1000 in the movie Terminator 2. Magnetically actuated miniature machines can perform multimodal locomotion and programmable deformations. However, ...

Forward-looking: Following the creation of robots that can alter their state between solid and liquid, humanity is once again left wondering if scientists have even watched Terminator 2. Researchers ...