Scientists Just Created Shape-Shifting Robots That Flow Like Liquid and Harden Like Steel | Researchers have designed a robotic material that transforms like a living organism.

“Inspired by embryos, these disk-shaped robots use magnets, motors, and light to shift between rigid and fluid states. The result? A self-healing, shape-shifting system.

“We’ve figured out a way for robots to behave more like a material” … Composed of individual, disk-shaped autonomous robots that look like small hockey pucks, the members of the collective are programmed to assemble themselves together into various forms with different material strengths.

The researchers were able to tune and control the group of robots to act like a smart material: sections of the group would turn on dynamic forces between robots and fluidize the collective, while in other sections the robots would simply hold to each other create a rigid material.”

But can they float like a butterfly and sting like a bee?

Sci-fi author: …and that’s why I wrote this cautionary tale about the Torment Nexus.

Tech Bros: At last! We have successfully created the Torment Nexus, from the hit sci-fi novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”!

In only four years someone is sending Arnold back into the past to kill Sarah Connor. Hurry up!