Back in 1991, ground breaking visual effects helped bring the shape-shifting liquid metal T-1000 robot to life in James Cameron’s Terminator 2, but 32 years later, shape-shifting robots now ...

The Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has created a rudimentary robot that can become a liquid on demand, a capability the lead author compared to the T-1000 from Terminator 2.

With PB, the team demonstrated that the liquid robot can pass through jail bars, like Robert Patrick’s T-1000 in Terminator 2.It can also roll on water without breaking apart, grab and move ...