Robots learn to sweat to stop overheating

[mala]

Robots learn to sweat to stop overheating

Hollow, pressurized reservoirs inside the fingers are filled with water and connected to the surface via ducts made of heat-reactive plastic. When the plastic hits a certain temperature, the pores open and water is pushed to the surface. There, it evaporates with a cooling effect more than twice as effective as those of the sweatiest beasts in the animal kingdom.

We will soon be in the cold sweaty palms of our robotic overlords.

 

[Lulav]

I am surprised by that, not that it's been invented but adding water to something that is composed of electronics might be a bit counterproductive.

 

[timothyu]

I just avoid cable news.

 

[durangodawood]

Wasnt R2D2 sweating on Dagoba? I think he was.

(Is he even a "he" though?)

 

[Ana the Ist]

Wasnt R2D2 sweating on Dagoba? I think he was.

(Is he even a "he" though?)

I think R2D2 is non-binary.

*That's a little gender/computing joke*