When the film director James Cameron premiered the second delivery of Terminator, a peculiar character, the T-1000, who has now managed to emulate science, included in the footage. Although it presents clear differences with the Android of the American councilor, since it has no human form or – obviously – a natural inclination to evil, a team led by scientists from the University of Seul has developed successfully A new generation -based soft -based robot.
This creation can cross metal bars -as Cameron’s humanoid -, capture and transport strange substances and merger with other liquid robots. In addition, it is a part of moving freely both on water and mainland surfaces, as published by the magazine ‘Science Advances’.
The behavior of this innovation is based on the ability of biological cells to divide freely, fuse and capture strange substances. Research efforts have been dedicated for a long time to replicate these unique possibilities in artificial systems, although traditional solid -based robots have affreated Limitations to effectively imitate flexibility and functionality of living beings.
To overcome these challenges, the joint research team successfully developed this type armored robot, covered with hydrophobic particles (water repellent) unusually dense. According to its developers, this innovation benefits both the exceptional Liquid deformability as of the Structural stability of solids. As a result, it can support extreme compression or high -impact falls, recovering its original form, such as a drop without breaking.
Biomedical applications
This creation is expected to be used in biomedical applications and soft robotics, such as the directed administration of drugs and therapeutic interventions in the human body. Also, thanks to its ability to cross extremely narrow spacescould be deployed in large quantities within complex machinery, between obstacles in rugged land and in disaster areas to perform exploration, cleaning, obstacle elimination with chemicals and nutrient supply.
Hyobin Jeon, first author of the article, has stated: «When we begin to develop the liquid robot, we initially consider encapsulating a spherical drop with particles, as used to manufacture conventional liquid marbles. However, when changing our perspective, the idea of cover an ice cube with particles and then melt itwhich significantly improved the stability of our robots ».
Professor Ho-Young Kim, another of the authors, commented: «Based on our current findings, we are now working on technologies that will allow liquid robot Change freely by sound waves or electric fields».
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