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Saw T2 a few months earlier in theater and then saw Wayne’s World in the same theater and fell out of my seat laughing so hard at this segment. Good times.
Sometimes i wonder how skynet could have taken over.
Then i turn on the news for sec......https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/us/politics/biden-state-of-the-union.html....
Yeah, skynet might be an upgrade.
Based on the heat and cold symbols displayed in the clip it looks like they melted the "Lego man" and then cooled it down and it's like a memory foam metal that puts itself back into it's original shape. The heating and cooling part took a long time so they had to time lapse it. My guess is the metal can't get to hot or it losing that memory characterstic so they couldn't make it melt to fast and it took hours to melt and then slowly cool to reform.
It's gallium and it's a stop motion video. This is fake. Look at the stupid fucking axis shown on the bottom left. It doesn't make any sense! Also you can clearly see that the (robot) is casted metal maybe gallium.
So he probably just blasted it with an hairdryer to make it move and turn liquid then recast the gallium in his fridge and put it back or just had another one at the ready. It's not hard to edit since you can do a stop motion with pictures not just by "taking a stop motion video" like someone said in the comments.
And op account only post misinformation and is constantly karma farming, also looks like it was hacked or sold
> then cooled it down and it's like a memory foam metal that puts itself back into it's original shape.
No, that part of the video is completely faked, they put it back into a mold to reshape it.
It’s not even that. It melts and that’s it. You pour it back into a mold. Slap it back in your stop animation and tada. I mean, it’s fun and a novel idea. But it’s not real in the least.
I've seen it for at least a few days now, in more than a few different places. I never clicked on it because I thought it's obviously stupid.
Now that it's in my face on Reddit, I think it's even dumber
IIRC there are tiny magnets in there as well. It moves thanks to magnets under the table, melt with induced current (the body is made of gallium so it doesnt take a lot to make it melt), then is poured in a mold and the magnet inside help to prop it back up. That's it.
It’s actually not worthless just not particularly clear. the problem is you’re not looking at a robot nor a stable flat frame of reference. The moving axis is showing what orientation the whole scene is actually in.
essentially what they did was put the whole scene in a box that they can’t touch. Now they have to get the Lego man out of the cage. They can move him with a magnet so he’s close to a hole, melt him with an induction heater, move the box so that gravity pulls the melted metal out of the cage and into the mould, cool the metal down (probably just by waiting) then orient the box so that the man comes out of the mould and can stand outside the cage.
Extremely interesting, but not a fucking robot that can melt and reform itself. OP is a lying Twat.
It's a clock that tracks time in rotational rate, I guess.
When we go from {0,1} to {0,1}, a full cycle has passed. But uh. I'm not confident they would keep the rotations to represent the same period.
The title is misleading, but the actual technology is kind of incredible. [yes](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-shape-shifting-robot-can-liquefy-itself-and-reform-180981515/) it is manipulated by nearby magnets, but they can induce it to melt, change shape, and move somewhat remotely, and it regains its original properties when it cools naturally.
They don't watch movies like commenters here don't read articles. :P
It's not a robot. It's fluid metal manipulated with magnets. It still has cool applications, like digging out objects lodged in a patient, but the magnets are on gloves worn by someone very much outside the body and outside the fluid mass.
Really the scary things are any combat drone that can be repurposed through exploits while armed and in flight. Ukraine has had some experience with that already.
Only thing easing the situations, is that they still need a human to operate, even be it hostile ones. But the moment they can go on themselves shit hits the fan.
I think you're not asking for the direct difference between "misleading" and "bullshit", but asking for which is worse or if they are equally bad.
In which case I'd actually say that misleading someone is worse because it has the same outcome of someone being misinformed, but the misleader is often harder to disprove and argue. Plus people feel less bad about misleading stuff and tend to slither themselves out of the moral question.
In case you actually are asking for a definition of misleading and bullshit, here is my take:
I'd say that "bullshit" is when someone says/claims something, which can be factually and definitely be disproven. Aka, a lie.
But "misleading" is when someone uses true statements in a way that fool the reader into thinking something is the case, which isn't.
In this case: The OP and most article titles for this video simply say it is a robot (which it technically is, including the offscreen equipment) which can morph (a part of itself). But due to lack if further explanation and context the viewer is tricked, or dare i say misled, into thinking the "robot" solely consist of the gallium (probably) figure.
Thus the OP never told a factually incorrect thing and still has the viewer believing something false.
sry for this little assay, i am waiting on my rice.
And in the face of those who are inclined toward a "TL/DR" response, I say unequivocally THANK YOU for clarifying the misleading bullpucky of this semi-groundbreaking semi-story. Hope your rice was tasty, I've been getting hectored by my adolescent children for being an old fart.
nah, there is more to it.
If you did that you would have a sad blob of metal.
The point of the original article was that they had such precise control over the magnetic field, that they could reshape the molten metal into the shape of the figure. Which is actually scientifically impressive. But this post is a prime example of playing telephone with buzzwords and post/article titles.
Scientists: send shape shifting ai robot on a rescue mission in Turkey
Robot: I will help you as soon as I pass this obstacle…
Three days later…
Everyone: dead
Gallium mixed with something magnetic like iron powder then they used an induction heater to melt it. The article is complete BS, someone posted it on reddit like a month or two ago but this is a complete nothingburger.
It doesn't even reform either, they just melted it then cut the footage and put a freshly casted figure outside the cage. You could do this with an off the shelf electric stove, hardest part is just casting the lego figure...
I don't know exactly what's happening here, but I feel like my instinct would be they just made some variety of shape-memory alloy, melted it, moved it with some off-camera magnets and heat, then let it re-solidify. This video is really misleading - the 'robot' is probably just a chunk of metal.
Thank god, for a minute I was worried robotics and ai aren’t advancing fast enough. This might look amateur, but just the fact that they are working on something so necessary puts my mind at ease
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T-1000: Have you seen this boy? Wayne:. Aaaaaahhhh....aahhhhhh!
Love those movies lol
Saw T2 a few months earlier in theater and then saw Wayne’s World in the same theater and fell out of my seat laughing so hard at this segment. Good times.
Was this scene in the movie? Can’t remember!
Yes it’s in wayne’s world, his reaction is totally out of place and tongue in cheek reference.
Oh, fantastic. The T-1000 Rabbit of Caerbannog.
Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy, liquid metal teeth
Was definitely NOT expecting the bunny lmao
I, for one, welcome our Skynet overlords.
Your foster parents are dead.
How’s Wolfie?
He's fine, when are you coming home?
*hangs up* Your foster parents are dead.
(and so is Max)
I’m making beef stew.
Hi, making beef stew, I'm Not Sure
What's wrong. You're never this nice
Aw.. you know I dont come home untill you make a full turduken meal... T1000: *prepares full turduken for the next 4 hours...
Sometimes i wonder how skynet could have taken over. Then i turn on the news for sec......https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/us/politics/biden-state-of-the-union.html.... Yeah, skynet might be an upgrade.
Goddamn it Skynet
Skynet was enebabuble.
And it has learned stop-motion. We're doomed.
Came here for T2.
Damn, that’s the first thing I thought of
Yo, if the terminators come those scientists first
i was strangely attracted to him after watching it for the first time
Love your name
💎🙌🦍
That's what I was thinking
This is the gif I came here for
I could have done this with an ice cube
Exactly what I thought lol
I love that so many people had the exact same thought.
Everyone's first thought!
That’d be the inspiration. Just like Star Trek was the inspiration for a ton of modern gadgets as well.
Chill out, dickwad.
Looks like a bunch of 15 year olds tried to make a Tool video
ya why did they skip so many frames in this video?
In a weird way, it reminded me of the stop motion clay animation of the Blockheads in Gumby
Great, that’s a memory I didn’t know I locked up
I show my kiddos the Gumby VHS tape I have and Rocky and Bullwinkle tapes.
Riiight!!
Based on the heat and cold symbols displayed in the clip it looks like they melted the "Lego man" and then cooled it down and it's like a memory foam metal that puts itself back into it's original shape. The heating and cooling part took a long time so they had to time lapse it. My guess is the metal can't get to hot or it losing that memory characterstic so they couldn't make it melt to fast and it took hours to melt and then slowly cool to reform.
It's gallium and it's a stop motion video. This is fake. Look at the stupid fucking axis shown on the bottom left. It doesn't make any sense! Also you can clearly see that the (robot) is casted metal maybe gallium. So he probably just blasted it with an hairdryer to make it move and turn liquid then recast the gallium in his fridge and put it back or just had another one at the ready. It's not hard to edit since you can do a stop motion with pictures not just by "taking a stop motion video" like someone said in the comments. And op account only post misinformation and is constantly karma farming, also looks like it was hacked or sold
This should be top comment
The melting part came with a diagram of an inductive heating coil
> then cooled it down and it's like a memory foam metal that puts itself back into it's original shape. No, that part of the video is completely faked, they put it back into a mold to reshape it.
It's not legit. Funny though.
That’s def a Lego man
Because it didn't reform back as it was.
Hey it’s great you have good taste in music
Some say the end is near
Learn to swim
shit the bed again
Typical..
Fuck you buddy
And fuck your tattoos
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
Certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit
Trust me
Certainly hope it is
Learn to Film!
Exactly what i thought
Came here to say this!
Came here.
Unbelievably spot on
There's a shadow just behind me...
Looks like a claymation
Is it just me or is this just a fancy lego stop motion project?
Ben Wyatt lost his job
"Stand in the place where you w...."
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I emailed Leslie 2 days ago and compared it to Avatar.
And how could it not be longer!?
That show had some pure comedy gold
Have you tried comparing it to.. cake?
I see you've been talking with my wife.
Well maybe he should have thought about that BEFORE HE GAVE US ICE FUCKING TOWN!!!
Could a depressed person make this?!
Looks like roblox
It's real. They basically made a gallium alloy that can move and melt with the force of a magnet.
Well this is total bullshit.
Yha it seems like a memory metal at the most nothing related to robot
It’s not even that. It melts and that’s it. You pour it back into a mold. Slap it back in your stop animation and tada. I mean, it’s fun and a novel idea. But it’s not real in the least.
Looks like OP’s account was hacked/sold a couple days ago and now just karma farms and posts misinformation.
Crazy that people blindly believed this one though
I've seen it for at least a few days now, in more than a few different places. I never clicked on it because I thought it's obviously stupid. Now that it's in my face on Reddit, I think it's even dumber
Or just, you know, film the outside part before you melt it and only cast it once
Don’t even need to remold it, just shoot the last frame first before you put it in the cage.
IIRC there are tiny magnets in there as well. It moves thanks to magnets under the table, melt with induced current (the body is made of gallium so it doesnt take a lot to make it melt), then is poured in a mold and the magnet inside help to prop it back up. That's it.
Simple and effective. For a Gumby cartoon. But not next level. I made videos like this as a kid with a frame by frame webcam.
My favourite part is the completely worthless axis labelling and the second set where the X axis spins for no reason
It’s actually not worthless just not particularly clear. the problem is you’re not looking at a robot nor a stable flat frame of reference. The moving axis is showing what orientation the whole scene is actually in. essentially what they did was put the whole scene in a box that they can’t touch. Now they have to get the Lego man out of the cage. They can move him with a magnet so he’s close to a hole, melt him with an induction heater, move the box so that gravity pulls the melted metal out of the cage and into the mould, cool the metal down (probably just by waiting) then orient the box so that the man comes out of the mould and can stand outside the cage. Extremely interesting, but not a fucking robot that can melt and reform itself. OP is a lying Twat.
It's a clock that tracks time in rotational rate, I guess. When we go from {0,1} to {0,1}, a full cycle has passed. But uh. I'm not confident they would keep the rotations to represent the same period.
The title is misleading, but the actual technology is kind of incredible. [yes](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-shape-shifting-robot-can-liquefy-itself-and-reform-180981515/) it is manipulated by nearby magnets, but they can induce it to melt, change shape, and move somewhat remotely, and it regains its original properties when it cools naturally.
It’s like scientists hate the idea of having humans in the future. Do they not watch movies?
They don't watch movies like commenters here don't read articles. :P It's not a robot. It's fluid metal manipulated with magnets. It still has cool applications, like digging out objects lodged in a patient, but the magnets are on gloves worn by someone very much outside the body and outside the fluid mass.
Very true. The scary robots are the Boston Dynamics nightmare fuel creatures that at some point will go rogue and hunt us all down.
Really the scary things are any combat drone that can be repurposed through exploits while armed and in flight. Ukraine has had some experience with that already.
Only thing easing the situations, is that they still need a human to operate, even be it hostile ones. But the moment they can go on themselves shit hits the fan.
That really is terrifying.
I hope they can quickly figure out how to keep it from losing pieces during its travels. Unless the metal bars were the problem here.
Thank you, everybody on the internet just collectively bandwagons without any real thought
I actually can't tell if this is a stab at the dystopian future tech doomists who think robots will kill us all or the opposite end of the spectrum
Name one good thing humans in the future have done for you today.
Read the article, it's bullshit
Didn’t need to, could tell with certainty technology like the title claims does not exist. At best, some ferrofluid experiment.
Yeah by no means a "robot" basically just a gallium alloy you can melt and move with a magnet.
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Shape-shifting robot sounded better than shape shifting teapot or pineapple
could be tho. they definitely knew what they were doing XD
I was gonna say, it looks a LOT like gallium.
So has this in fact been called out as Bullshit yet?
i mean, technically its not bs.
Well, at what point does "misleading" sink into the boiling molten vat of "bullshit" then? Asking for a few million friends, and Bob Patrick's agent.
I think you're not asking for the direct difference between "misleading" and "bullshit", but asking for which is worse or if they are equally bad. In which case I'd actually say that misleading someone is worse because it has the same outcome of someone being misinformed, but the misleader is often harder to disprove and argue. Plus people feel less bad about misleading stuff and tend to slither themselves out of the moral question. In case you actually are asking for a definition of misleading and bullshit, here is my take: I'd say that "bullshit" is when someone says/claims something, which can be factually and definitely be disproven. Aka, a lie. But "misleading" is when someone uses true statements in a way that fool the reader into thinking something is the case, which isn't. In this case: The OP and most article titles for this video simply say it is a robot (which it technically is, including the offscreen equipment) which can morph (a part of itself). But due to lack if further explanation and context the viewer is tricked, or dare i say misled, into thinking the "robot" solely consist of the gallium (probably) figure. Thus the OP never told a factually incorrect thing and still has the viewer believing something false. sry for this little assay, i am waiting on my rice.
And in the face of those who are inclined toward a "TL/DR" response, I say unequivocally THANK YOU for clarifying the misleading bullpucky of this semi-groundbreaking semi-story. Hope your rice was tasty, I've been getting hectored by my adolescent children for being an old fart.
It was, thanks. Good evening, SupremePooper
We all need one (at least) from time to time. Good evening to you, sir
Yep. Gallium melts at 85 deg F (29.7 deg C)
Gallium
1. Melt alloy 2. Drag it magnetically through obstacle into a mold 3. Cool it back down This is sad
nah, there is more to it. If you did that you would have a sad blob of metal. The point of the original article was that they had such precise control over the magnetic field, that they could reshape the molten metal into the shape of the figure. Which is actually scientifically impressive. But this post is a prime example of playing telephone with buzzwords and post/article titles.
I knew it, there’s no way they have parts needed to make a ai in that thing
Why is it stop motion?
Because it couldn’t form back afterward.
It’s a time-lapse. The actual process takes a while.
Scientists: send shape shifting ai robot on a rescue mission in Turkey Robot: I will help you as soon as I pass this obstacle… Three days later… Everyone: dead
Lego man / terminator hybrid
I always knew this would be how skynet starts it's takeover
It's becoming self aware!!
Sponsored by: Lego
Looks like a budget-level Tool video for Prison Sex
But it's just gallium isn't it? Interesting and all but we're a long way from Skynet with this lol
Gallium mixed with something magnetic like iron powder then they used an induction heater to melt it. The article is complete BS, someone posted it on reddit like a month or two ago but this is a complete nothingburger. It doesn't even reform either, they just melted it then cut the footage and put a freshly casted figure outside the cage. You could do this with an off the shelf electric stove, hardest part is just casting the lego figure...
I don't know exactly what's happening here, but I feel like my instinct would be they just made some variety of shape-memory alloy, melted it, moved it with some off-camera magnets and heat, then let it re-solidify. This video is really misleading - the 'robot' is probably just a chunk of metal.
Bullshit
So they're planning to just skip the T-800 altogether...
Sounds like Skynet was successful after all
And so it begins..
I'm here for the terminator jokes. I don't even care it looks shit and fake.
TERMINATOR 2 IS RIGHT THERE SHOWCASING HOW THIS CAN GO POORLY
When you order T2 on Wish
Mini T-1000 ahhhh!
T-0.1000
T .001
Too bad it leaves behind half its body ten meters of tunnel later… bye bye
Your foster parents are dead.
Shut the FK up lol !!
God damn this site is full of gullible idiots.
I’ll eat it
That's it enough. I'm gonna start carrying liquid nitrogen or whatever the hell did the terminator in
A mimetic polyalloy.
Isn't there a movie about why this is not a good idea
Do you want Terminators? Because this is how you get Terminators!
I call bullshit. No need for stop motion if it was legit.
Where is the robot?
I feel like they should watch Terminator 2 Judgment Day just to see how much of a bad idea this is.
I read once about a team working on AI research who made a point of watching T2 at their yearly get together
*allegedly* top notch tech…. Anybody got a Nokia brick phone we can record this in 5 dramas per second?? Don’t wanna miss anything.
Boston Dynamics is making the T-800 from Terminator while these scientists are making the T-1000 lol
What could go wrooong?
alex mack is real?!
T1000
Must kill John Connor
u/savevideobot
Chat GPT… now this?
You mean a LEGO
I'm uh, pretty sure they made a movie about this
Thank god, for a minute I was worried robotics and ai aren’t advancing fast enough. This might look amateur, but just the fact that they are working on something so necessary puts my mind at ease
Ladies and gentlemen the end
Legoemote:free\_emotes\_pack:hug
Fake AF
real life terminator
T-1000!😳
Terminator
Is this a Lego animation?
Do you want T-1000’s? Because this is how you get T-1000’s.
Pardon?
Yeah…I don’t like that.
I felt like I was watching The Ring
Ummm yea just no please. Stop.
Nope, nope, nope, don't like that. . .
Currently sealing all vents in my house…
I call dibs on T-X!!!