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Letter: Could melting robot be a sign of things to come?

Published 15 February 2023

From HildaRuth Beaumont, Brighton, UK

In the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the villain of the piece is the T-1000, a killer robot composed of a shape-shifting metal alloy. There is clear resonance here with the robot created by Carmel Majidi and his colleagues(4 February, p 12). Is this a case of science fiction in the process of becoming science fact?

Issue no. 3426 published 18 February 2023

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