@jer103
The slime was leaving a residue when going through small spaces. If it was going through the body, borax and polyvinyl alcohol are toxic, like he said. This is a very early prototype, until it's safe to be used practically.
@Octamed
Using these to reconnect severed spine signals would be interesting. They could even grab a nerve and pull it towards the other broken nerve long enough for them to fuse and heal, then it could retreat out of the body (I'm assuming a strong external magnetic matrix is needed to drive the little dude, so you couldn't just leave it there. Unless the slime could be 'set' kind of how UV light sets some materials)
@Yetipfote
"Completely controlled by humans." ........ famous last words.
@BoughtByTheBlood
"And absolutely nothing can ever go wrong..." Said every sci-fi horror movie EVER!
@FilmFightFanatic
Give this thing self-awareness and soon we might get the T-1000 from Terminator 2.
@honestgoat
This is both incredibly amazing AND incredibly frightening at the same time.
@davidzaslow7458
Wow what an amazing breakthrough, It's only been around for over 2 decades.
@JeremyMarvel
The part that’s always left out of these videos is the massive setup just off camera that includes the ancillary equipment (pneumatic pumps, power systems, electromagnets, etc.) and the actual computer controlling everything. Autonomy also requires sensing. It’s a really neat idea, and I see a lot of potential as a component of future technologies. I look forward to reading their papers once they learn more about the material properties. EDIT: Full citation for the authors’ paper: Sun, Mengmeng, Chenyao Tian, Liyang Mao, Xianghe Meng, Xingjian Shen, Bo Hao, Xin Wang, Hui Xie, and Li Zhang. "Reconfigurable Magnetic Slime Robot: Deformation, Adaptability, and Multifunction." Advanced Functional Materials (2022): 2112508.
@SantanuProductions
The possible negative side of this in medicine could be that if a tiniest of particle is accidentally left behind in a blood vessel or elsewhere could be hugely fatal.
@ReyoVR
I know the professor. He was also featured in Guinness World Records for his fusilli-shaped robot as the smallest nanorobot of the world. He proposed the robots can be controlled magnetically as a swarm inside the blood vessel.
@fard2780
1:09 man really throwing it back
@M9077
You went with flubber? It’s the T1000 terminator!
@mach2223
Great to see the progress on the T-1000.
@suiginmigasuto3356
We’re looking at the baby pictures of the T-1000. Isn’t it cute?! Lol
@Randomynous01
You know i hate it when channels like you go on and on, without mentioning the major question of how exactly this “liquid robot” is controlled by “human manipulation “
@stack_overflow
I would be worried about potentially leaving strong magnets inside of a body, even if they're small, what if a small chunk of this slime got 'forgotten' and the patient goes to get an MRI down the line? The magnets could potentially move or heat up
@evanunhinged5771
Decades of sci-fi trying to predict what kind of crazy technology we would have in the future that we don't have now but we DO have LIQUID ROBOTS.
@jennifers4017
Got to love how they make this true life horror show sound like a fun after school special. I love when he says it is purely hypothetical. Wink, wink.
@cam1e754
HOW have i not seen this on the news
@link1016