令人悚然的黑科技 化学培养皿里长出无人机!

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系统公司发布的一份概念视频展示了未来制造无人机的过程。在视频里，无人机从液态金属里“长”了出来，看起来就像从电影里走出的无人阻挡的终结者一样。

"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.

该公司的官网上的介绍是这样说的：“有一款称之为'Chemputer'的全新机器，通过使用这款机器，可以用先进的化学方法来'栽培'飞机和其他一切复杂的电子系统，所有制造出来的机械都是由物质分子构成，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.

在这家公司发布的这份视频里，一个巨大的化学培养皿里长出来了一架无人机，随后这个培养皿被移动到了另外一个地方，在这里，一条机械手臂给无人机安装了发动机部件。当然这只是一个概念，但是BAE系统公司曾经把概念变成过现实，因此这并不仅仅只是一个不可能实现的发明的概念视频而已。

"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系统公司全球工程研究员尼克·科洛西莫在该公司网站上的一份声明中说道：“我们一直在研究如何把电子化和合成化学材料化学相结合，从而在未来某个时间点能够在机器中自主生成一些复杂事物，或者仅需要很少的人类干涉。制造小飞机会很有挑战性，但是我有信心，创这种创新思维和电子技术会最终导致复杂的化学物质系统的自动编程和形成。”

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

很显然，“Chemputer”的下一步将是制造仿真机器人，到那时，科幻小说中的情节就将再一次被变成现实。