Robot Uprising Update: Scientists Create Shapeshifting Humanoid Robot That Can Liquify And Reform

Mini Figure Version of the Liquefying
Robot after escaping its cage.

This development in the ongoing march to the inevitable robot uprising is not quite as scary as the headline sounds, unless you're a Lego Mini figure, in which case you had better hope they don't hand this abomination a laser gun and program it to destroy.

Chinese Scientists have made a breakthrough in robotics by creating a machine that is able to turn itself into a liquid and then reform back into a solid. 

In one demonstration a tiny robot, the size and shape of a Lego mini figure, liquifies itself to escape through the bars of a cage and then reforms, like a very early 'proof of concept' prototype of a T-1000 Terminator from the movie Terminator 2.

Fortunately the process isn't lightening fast and, since the robot liquifies itself through heat rather than nanobot technology, one imagines a human sized version would require considerable power and an  extremely high body temperature to achieve the same thing at scale.

While scientists are thinking the robot could have some interesting applications in the medical field, like being guided around the human digestive system to remove various anomalies, there's probably some military autocrat somewhere foaming at the mouth to attach lasers to this thing and get it out in the field.

For now make sure your Lego mini figures are safe, and keep an eye out for any random mini figures popping in from the future trying to find a 'John Connor' while claiming 'Everything is Awesome!'.