ACEIZE Tracking the current state of Science and Technology

This is a video of a chemical gel that utilizes an oscillating chemical reaction called the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. In this reaction certain compound concentrations will periodically increase and decrease.

There is some talk that this chemical gel could be used to create mechanical control systems without the need for electronics. For the time being, however, there is a chemical gel that can walk across a lab table.