Getting Terminator 2’s T-1000 into MK1 was both easy and incredibly hard

Getting Terminator 2’s T-1000 into MK1 was both easy and incredibly hard

“Guest characters are always a challenge,” says Nick Nicastro, design manager at Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios. But there’s at least one thing that’s easy about bringing Mortal Kombat 1’s newest kombatant, the Terminator T-1000, to the fighting game: a shared understanding of what the character is and what he’s capable of in terms of being a cold-blooded killer. “We’re major fans of movies from the ’80s and ’90s, so we’re all prett…

Science fiction seems to become a reality. A team of researchers from the University of Seoul developed an innovative armored liquid robot that, although has neither the human appearance nor the destructive intentions of Terminator 2’s T-1000, shares some of its amazing features. This breakthrough promises to revolutionize the field of soft robotics. In Terminator 2, the T-1000, a liquid robot capable of crossing solid objects and changing shape…

Anyone who thinks of a liquid robot immediately has the T-1000 from "Terminator 2". Researchers develop a robot with similar properties.