Science News | Watch shape-shifting metal gallium in action | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
With the help of variable and permanent magnets, researchers turned chunks of gallium into shape-shifting devices. In the first clip, a toy figure escapes its jail cell by liquefying, gliding through the bars and resolidifying using a mold placed just outside the bars. In the second clip, one device removes a ball from a model human stomach by wrapping itself around the foreign object and exiting the organ.
Read more: sciencenews.org/article/robot-shape-shifting-gallium-melt-reform-magnetic-fields
Video: Q. Wang et al/Matter 2023 (CC BY-SA)