Almost every Wolverine fan has watched "X-Men: Days of future past". The movie's story revolves around giant self-healing robots, the Sentinels, who are programmed to destroy the entire mutant race. The robots get their self-healing capability from Logan a.k.a Wolverine. Now, it seems that these "Wolverine" and "Deadpool" Inspired Self-Healing Robots will become reality quite soon.

While "Wolverine" is more known for his deadly claws, it is "Deadpool" who makes the self-healing ability appear like a superhero feature. Both the characters have a mutant power to regenerate body tissues at a very fast speed. Taking inspiration from this ability, scientists at the University of California have successfully developed a new material that could enable the next-gen robots to self-heal after a mechanical failure.

According to the scientists involved in the research, the highly stretchable, transparent, conductive self-healing material can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles. This could also be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and to develop "Wolverine" and "Deadpool" Inspired Self-Healing Robots. It's quite interesting that this is the first time scientists have been able to create such an ionic conductor material. The findings were published earlier in the journal "Advanced Material."

In an interview with Digital Trends, Chao Wang, University of California, Riverside Professor stated that he'd always been a fan of "Wolverine" and wanted to develop man-made materials, self-healing robots, devices or actuators that also have such self-healing abilities. Christoph Keplinger, a University of Colorado, Boulder professor had previously shown that a transparent, ionic conductor could be used to power artificial muscles. However, the self-healing property was not well known until Wang and other researchers combined the high-ionic-strength salt with a polymer containing charged molecules.

The self-healing material has the ability to stretch 50 times its original size, restore electrical properties almost immediately, and withstand electrochemical conditions. These properties can be used in the development of "Wolverine" and "Logan" inspired Self-healing robots. Keplinger believes that by using this new tech, the scientists would be able to develop next-gen robots with architecture much similar to that of human biology. Stay tuned to Mobile&Apps for more news and updates on the self-healing robots.