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The robot can melt and solidify

Video. Watch this shape-shifting robot melt through bars and reform

Updated: 25 January 2023 - 17:01 GMT+1

It looks straight out of Terminator, but the robot was actually inspired by sea cucumbers, which can morph between stiff and flaccid states.

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