Eye of the future: Screen capture of video released by Chinese scientists shows a little spinning ball of gallium alloy that can power itself due to a chemical reaction. It's effectively a tiny motor with many possible applications. The alloy can also change its shape when fed an electrical current. Photo: YouTube
It may look like a little ball of metal, but the shape-shifting metal alloy and its self-propulsive abilities discovered by scientists at China’s Tsinghua University have captured the imaginations of scientists and science-fiction fans across the world.
Professor Liu Jing and his team have created what they believe could prove the first step toward developing a robot similar to the infamous T-1000 shape-shifting, liquid metal assassin from the Terminator movies.
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