Circa 2015

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First we kick them, then we give them the tools they need to destroy all of humanity. Good job, us.

Scientists in China have invented a liquid metal that can shape-shift and propel itself around a course all by itself.

Made from a metal alloy containing mostly gallium — a metal that melts down to liquid form at just below 30 degrees Celsius — the world’s “first self-fuelled liquid metal motor” can get about an hour’s worth of movement out of a single flake of aluminium.