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Scientists Have Created Programmable Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal
« on: November 20, 2017, 11:11:16 am »
Scientists Have Created Programmable Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal.





Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into 2D shapes such as letters and a heart.

The team says the findings represent an “extremely promising” new class of materials that can be programmed to seamlessly change shape. This open up new possibilities in ‘soft robotics’ and shape-changing displays, the researcher say.

While the invention might bring to mind the film Terminator 2, in which the villain morphs out of a pool of liquid metal, the creation of 3D shapes is still some way off. More immediate applications could include reprogrammable circuit boards and conductive ink.



Yutaka Tokuda, the Research Associate working on this project at the University of Sussex, says: “This is a new class of programmable materials in a liquid state which can dynamically transform from a simple droplet shape to many other complex geometry in a controllable manner.

“While this work is in its early stages, the compelling evidence of detailed 2D control of liquid metals excites us to explore more potential applications in computer graphics, smart electronics, soft robotics and flexible displays.”

 

The electric fields used to shape the liquid are created by a computer, meaning that the position and shape of the liquid metal can be programmed and controlled dynamically.

Professor Sriram Subramanian, head of the INTERACT Lab at the University of Sussex, said: “Liquid metals are an extremely promising class of materials for deformable applications; their unique properties include voltage-controlled surface tension, high liquid-state conductivity and liquid-solid phase transition at room temperature.

“One of the long-term visions of us and many other researchers is to change the physical shape, appearance and functionality of any object through digital control to create intelligent, dexterous and useful objects that exceed the functionality of any current display or robot.”

The research is being presented today (17 October) at the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2017 conference in Brighton.

A live demonstration is taking place this evening at the Jury’s Inn Brighton Waterfront from 7pm to 10pm.

This is a joint project between Sussex and Swansea funded by EPSRC on “Breaking the Glass: Multimodal, Malleable Interactive Mobile surfaces for Hands-In Interactions”.


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Re: Scientists Have Created Programmable Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2017, 07:12:36 pm »
I'll say it again "terminator", although they wont win imho.
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Re: Scientists Have Created Programmable Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2017, 07:38:04 pm »
Hope your right Biggles !

It suggests that they are a long way of what we see in the Movie...

Some believe however that they have developed human type Clones with special terminator like abilities..

but I have not as yet come across suggestions that they can be molten metal like !  but that they can shapeshift to appear different or change appearance.. or maybe even be invisible..
when required..


I'll say it again "terminator", although they wont win imho.

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Re: Scientists Have Created Programmable Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2017, 09:27:16 pm »
"To the liquid brain, the world was a simple puzzle box of broken reality, the hard pieces easily fitting back into the river of cosmic order.  Cause and effect was the closest thing to humor in a mind so alien that even SKYNET had difficulty understanding it fully. The T1000 had deduced several possible avenues of continuing the mission in the most efficient manner possible.  it was methodically following one while constantly processing the others for branching opportunities.  It was fully autonomous, and barely under the allegiance of its creator, SKYNET. 

SKYNET had hesitated before creating this latest weapon system.   There were unpredictability factors related to the liquid poly-mimetic alloy's longevity and the ability to process commands without interpolating its own priorities over those of its creator.  It was so volatile a construct that only in the last throes of defeat, only when it appeared that the Resistance would finally be able to mount an offensive against the inner command components of SKYNET, even threatening the Cheyenne Mountain complex itself, did SKYNET go ahead and create the T1000.  Einstein once said that God didn't play dice with the universe.  SKYNET had no choice..."


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