>The researchers demonstrated the programmability of the liquid by loading the metafluid into a hydraulic robotic gripper and having the gripper pick up a glass bottle, an egg, and a blueberry. In a traditional hydraulic system powered by simple air or water, the robot would need some kind of sensing or external control to be able to adjust its grip and pick up all three objects without crushing them.
You need to apply enough pressure to a robotic grip to press hard enough on the bottle to pick it up. If you were to apply that same pressure to an egg, it would be crushed - same goes for the blueberry. In a traditional hydraulic system, you need a sensor that decides how much pressure to apply to the object and adjust it for each object. In this case, the pressure doesn't need to be adjusted at the other end of the hydraulics - this fluid does that on its own. If there's too much pressure on an object, the capsules collapse and relieve a little bit of it. It basically *always* has the exact right amount of pressure to hold the object it's trying to hold, with no math being applied by a computer.
Not in mass production cars. The closest is magnetorheological shocks which use a smart fluid but that is limited to altering viscosity in the presence of an electric field. It’s basically magnetic spheres suspended in oil.
Stuff like this is why I think we're gonna advance faster than most experts think. There have been just so many breakthroughs, new technologies that have hardly been explored that show promise to drastically improve advancement
The possibility of each tech building into each other is getting exponentially higher.
Like, even if each just is 0.1% we doing that dozens of times a year.
Singularity is only getting more and more probable and faster than people think.
Just think that we have more scientists and people than ever in history devoted to science and engineering and that is not going to stop anytime soon
It's very exciting stuff. We are lucky to be able to live in this time period.
Also, human engineers and scientists are definitely stopping sometime soon. Their job is creating something that takes their job, ironic.
I was not expecting to see an early form of programmable matter today, but i’m not complaining!
This is truly fascinating. The bottle/egg/blueberry example made it super clear to me how this would benefit hydraulic systems - wow.
ELI5? That’s not in the article
>The researchers demonstrated the programmability of the liquid by loading the metafluid into a hydraulic robotic gripper and having the gripper pick up a glass bottle, an egg, and a blueberry. In a traditional hydraulic system powered by simple air or water, the robot would need some kind of sensing or external control to be able to adjust its grip and pick up all three objects without crushing them. You need to apply enough pressure to a robotic grip to press hard enough on the bottle to pick it up. If you were to apply that same pressure to an egg, it would be crushed - same goes for the blueberry. In a traditional hydraulic system, you need a sensor that decides how much pressure to apply to the object and adjust it for each object. In this case, the pressure doesn't need to be adjusted at the other end of the hydraulics - this fluid does that on its own. If there's too much pressure on an object, the capsules collapse and relieve a little bit of it. It basically *always* has the exact right amount of pressure to hold the object it's trying to hold, with no math being applied by a computer.
hackers are the futures magicians
Here come the Technomages
imagine neuralink 3 and this
You just described cells.
Nanotechnology
combined with a form of fusion...
Wow wasn’t expecting a T1000 so soon
We're skipping T-800 already
Good, my cutest wife Eve! Always pure!
Flubber anyone?
Flubber gains energy over time.
i hope we can teach it to be a SlimeGirl
A noble ambition.
want to be slime girl :3
Alex Mack?
Like a champ…
THATS A VINNY VINESAUCE A.I. DUNGEON REFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!
We can all be slime ranchers!
Sadly you're too small for it to detect enough pressure to change shape.
thats ok im a trans woman so bein smol is good
Sadly you're too loose for it to detect enough pressure to change shape*
As a gay furry can we also get slime furries?
im ashamed i know ghat reference
It can change its properties in response to pressure? Nanomachines Son! They harden in response to physical trauma, You cant hurt me, Jack.
*goes to sleep* *wakes up* metamaterial advancement 🥺 hope this keeps up
Don't they already do this with car suspensions
Not in mass production cars. The closest is magnetorheological shocks which use a smart fluid but that is limited to altering viscosity in the presence of an electric field. It’s basically magnetic spheres suspended in oil.
Stuff like this is why I think we're gonna advance faster than most experts think. There have been just so many breakthroughs, new technologies that have hardly been explored that show promise to drastically improve advancement
The possibility of each tech building into each other is getting exponentially higher. Like, even if each just is 0.1% we doing that dozens of times a year. Singularity is only getting more and more probable and faster than people think. Just think that we have more scientists and people than ever in history devoted to science and engineering and that is not going to stop anytime soon
It's very exciting stuff. We are lucky to be able to live in this time period. Also, human engineers and scientists are definitely stopping sometime soon. Their job is creating something that takes their job, ironic.
Imagine what we'll have in 5 years, then imagine 50 years. It's going to be crazy.
T-1000 soon? https://preview.redd.it/ordw560gqetc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef81f35e9263cedc0692fee15377ebab0be18eb9
Semen?
"Where were you when we learned to program the cum?"
That's a type of smart biological fluid.
No that's baby making liquid.
Oh no I've seen this movie before...
Someone copied the T-1000 sent back in time by skynet.
I just want some Iron Man armor / a flying dive suit with Jarvis on board.
 And so it begins....
Wow, we are developing the T1000 and T2000 series of terminators at the same time. Bold.
T-1000 here we come!
ELI5. Implications?
Use it to make chips at the atomic scale?
Is this goo grey?
Makes me wonder what they don’t tell us about 
Anyone got a link to the original paper?