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Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob

Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob

16 September 2022

A robot made from magnetic fluid can be made smaller, thinner, or directed to break up with special magnets, which could be useful for delivering drugs into the body
Spinning magnetic droplets

Weird new type of magnetic liquid could be used to control soft robots

18 July 2019

A strange liquid magnet full of iron nanoparticles can change its shape in a magnetic field, and it may eventually be used to make wireless, moving soft robots

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