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Writer Fuel: We’re Teaching Robots to Build Themselves. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Terminator

Scientists have created a prototype robot that can grow, heal and improve itself by integrating material from its environment or by “consuming” other robots. It’s a big step forward in developing robot autonomy, the researchers say. The researchers coined the term “robot metabolism” to describe the process that enables machinery to absorb and reuse parts … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Scientists Make Robot That Can Melt and Resolidify

Little Terminator

Scientists have created a tiny “Terminator 2”-like robot that can melt and resolidify itself on command, enabling it to easily escape from confined spaces. To make the phase-shifting robot, scientists embedded microscopic chunks of magnetic neodymium, boron and iron into liquid gallium (a metal with a low melting point) and left it to solidify. And … Read more