In the movies, robots can change from cars to jets to helicopters and then back to a car, all with the push of a button.
Furthermore, the engineers behind the groundbreaking achievement note that their robot can transform itself without motors or pulleys but instead uses temperature and custom materials to morph itself between pre-programmed shapes. Researchers from Virginia Tech University have created a real-life transformer robot that can change from a driving vehicle to a flying one and then back to a driving one.
