Every day a step forward for artificial intelligence, which now seems more and more human (indeed, a conversation with chatgpt, or Gemini, or Copilot, or Grok, can be more satisfying than that with your neighbor). But also in robotics. We have seen robot that the waiters do, robot dogs that can act as law enforcement officers, robots that build copies of themselves, and now, listen, the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has designed a new robot composed of programmable micro -taordan parts.
The result was obtained by studying cells during embryonic development. For an ethologist, this can remember an anthill (which is called superorganism, since every single ant behaves like a small part of a single organism). In practice we can see a robot composed of a material that can go from solid to liquid state. Hey, hey, hey, what? From the solid state to the liquid state and vice versa? Macché formicaio.
To us of generation X (even if they call us Boomer, wrong), grown with Terminator, instead he recalled another thing: in short, it is the T-1000 of Terminator 2! Too bad that time trips are not and will never be possible except in movies, otherwise we would immediately put ourselves in search of Sarah Connor.