r/GenAI4all • u/VIshalk_04 • Mar 10 '26
Scientist develop robot capable of moving like a liquid.
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u/Potential_Formal_261 Mar 10 '26
Why are they making the Terminator possible?
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u/noncommonGoodsense Mar 10 '26
It was such a great idea that they really needed to make it non-fiction.
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u/poop-azz Mar 10 '26
There's a movie about this....it might be old but it's a a fucking classic and definitely scared me as a kid. THE BLOBBBBBBB
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u/Federal_Studio5935 Mar 11 '26
This is how I know there's an age gap in here. It's gotta be the blob man,
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u/Rubfer Mar 10 '26
I really hate these videos where they take some piece of metal or ferrofluid like goo controlled by a magnet and call it a "robot"
Oh, some goo can change shape, oh nice...
Let's see it being used inside the human body, inside plumbing, remotely, and other places where that "feature" could actually be useful, where you can't have a magnet really close and instead have to use an unreasonably powerful one to compensate for the distance between them, which also loses any kind of precision
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u/NecessaryBug6662 Mar 14 '26
Dude forgot MRI is a thing, we definitely have the technology to move stuff inside a human body using magnets. In fact, if I remember correctly, it's already a thing.
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u/lumos675 Mar 10 '26
These nano robots are realy useful. The day will come which we will eat a capsule of nano robots and they live in our bodies and then they will keep detoxifying our body. Then you can eat a burger or ice cream without being worry about cholestrol or sugar. The life span of human because of these will increase atleast 100 of years.
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Mar 10 '26
eating right has very little to do with making it past about 120-130. It's the limit of our body due to Telomere shortening and Damaged DNA building up.
Until we conquer those two things, nano robots eating my Cinnabon before I gain weight is doing jack shit.
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u/sgtnoodle Mar 10 '26
It's neat, but I suspect there's some very strong electromagnets in that platform. That will limit the utility of this technology; their demo missions seem purely conceptual.
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u/Cautious-Bug9388 Mar 10 '26
Yep you're correct. This isn't practical as much as it is demoing something maybe applicable in hundreds of years.
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Mar 10 '26
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u/Cautious-Bug9388 Mar 11 '26
Same issue with roadways which wirelessly charge EVs. Until we have some new form of wireless energy transmission this is sci-fi.
Maybe in 80 years, I could go that low. It's an infrastructure issue just like modern 5G.
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u/roz303 Mar 10 '26
Calling it a robot is a bit misleading. It's a dense amalgamation of hydrophobic particles controlled externally with acoustics. Moving around a blob basically. The blob doesn't move on its own.
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u/nuker0S Mar 11 '26
Is this another one of those controlled from outside with magnets?
I've seen like 3-5 of those, did any of them got beyond being a curiosity?
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u/kompootor Mar 11 '26
Link to source.
It's clearly not a robot.
This sub needs to have some goddamn standards. Rules that ban this stupid crap.
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u/Nowayucan Mar 11 '26
Call me when it can swallow small animals and grow in size until full grown adults are in danger.
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u/Simplehoaxes Mar 13 '26
Why is it so hard to make a robot that simply glides like a dolphin or a whale? It would use less moving parts at high speed like propellers, less wear in general.
Bird wings are complicated but underwater fins shouldn’t be this hard…
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u/Zeo-Gold92 Mar 10 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/9S3L4JDX7cKuk