令人悚然的黑科技 化學培養皿里長出無人機!

Evoking images from the liquid metal and nearly unstoppable Terminator from the movies, BAE Systems has posted concept video footage of a process to create drones of the future.

近日，BAE系統公司發佈的一份概念視頻展示了未來製造無人機的過程。在視頻裏，無人機從液態金屬裏“長”了出來，看起來就像從電影裏走出的無人阻擋的終結者一樣。

"A radical new machine called a Chemputer could enable advanced chemical processes to grow aircraft and some of their complex electronic systems, conceivably from a molecular level upwards," reads the description on the company's website.

該公司的官網上的介紹是這樣說的：“有一款稱之爲'Chemputer'的全新機器，通過使用這款機器，可以用先進的化學方法來'栽培'飛機和其他一切複雜的電子系統，所有制造出來的機械都是由物質分子構成，是非常可靠、令人信服的。”

The video shows a drone being produced in a large vat of chemicals and then moved to a staging area where a robotic arm inserts what are, presumably, the drone's engine components. Sure this is just a concept, but BAE Systems has a track record of turning concepts into reality, so this isn't just another concept video promising unlikely inventions.

在這家公司發佈的這份視頻裏，一個巨大的化學培養皿里長出來了一架無人機，隨後這個培養皿被移動到了另外一個地方，在這裏，一條機械手臂給無人機安裝了發動機部件。當然這只是一個概念，但是BAE系統公司曾經把概念變成過現實，因此這並不僅僅只是一個不可能實現的發明的概念視頻而已。

"We have been developing routes to digitize synthetic and materials chemistry and at some point in the future hope to assemble complex objects in a machine from the bottom up, or with minimal human assistance," said professor Nick Colosimo, a BAE Systems global engineering fellow in a statement on the company's website. "Creating small aircraft would be very challenging but I'm confident that creative thinking and convergent digital technologies will eventually lead to the digital programming of complex chemical and material systems."

BAE系統公司全球工程研究員尼克·科洛西莫在該公司網站上的一份聲明中說道：“我們一直在研究如何把電子化和合成化學材料化學相結合，從而在未來某個時間點能夠在機器中自主生成一些複雜事物，或者僅需要很少的人類干涉。製造小飛機會很有挑戰性，但是我有信心，創這種創新思維和電子技術會最終導致複雜的化學物質系統的自動編程和形成。”

The next obvious step would be humanoid robots produced by the "chemputer," and then science fiction will have officially predicted reality — again.

很顯然，“Chemputer”的下一步將是製造仿真機器人，到那時，科幻小說中的情節就將再一次被變成現實。