Video footage of a rather peculiar invention has accrued viral attention on social media due to its grossness and absurdity, as it is a slime “robot” controlled by magnets that can be used to remove foreign obstructions in the body such as the oral cavity (or maybe for use in the many China incidents where people get things stuck in their urethra).
On Twitter, a minute-long video showing the slime moving about gained over 25,000 retweets and 94,000 likes in about two days.
The aforementioned footage:
The slime, which can self-heal, is controlled with external magnets (covered in silicone for safety) and can stealthily move about tight spaces and grab things, with many claiming that it could be used inside the human body.
It is said that elastic robots that can interact with objects and fluid-like robots that can move about in tight areas both exist, but both elements have rarely been implemented into one machine.
The article discussing the sentient slime is pay-walled, but it notes that Li Zhang at the Chinese University of Hong Kong created the slime alongside his colleagues, mixing together neodymium magnet particles with borax and polyvinyl alcohol.
Considering China has many incidents where children and adults have a fixation with inserting metallic beads, USB cables, electrical cords, padlocks, and even needles up their urethra, such an invention might in fact prove highly helpful.
Reminds me of the first Matrix movie, where they put some robot into the protagonist.
Oh, you mean the Tracers? No, that’s more like having a worm crawl in your skin.
This is more like the player-controlled character in Carrion (Devolver Digital, 2020)
First step to the WAU.
That wire grabbing around 0:13 seems like stop motion meaning that the whole thing is probably fake as f♥♥k.
April 1st, which is April fools day, and looks like stop-motion clay animation, so seems likely…
its China man the probablity is of it being fake is only like 99.9999%
perfect for edge
Sure, but what happens when it wants to eat brains and kill Spider-man?
We let it eat Spider Man. Doesn’t have to be Peter, miles/ben/kaine exist.
No doy likes Spiderman anymore. He has become a wuzz.
says the obsessed autist 🙄🙄🙄
obsessed cock worshipper projecting 🙄🙄🙄
nope 🙄🙄🙄
nah 🙄🙄🙄
no u 🙄🙄🙄
Magnet particles (sharp edges) + Borax (toxic) + polyvinyl alcohol (toxic).
And you wanted this to enter your body? Sasuga china quality.