令人悚然的黑科技 化学培养皿里长出无人机!

 　　Evoking¹ 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 radical² new machine called a Chemputer could enable advanced chemical processes to grow aircraft and some of their complex electronic systems, conceivably from a molecular³ 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。”

　　令人悚然的黑科技 化学培养皿里长出无人机!

　　The video shows a drone being produced in a large vat⁴ of chemicals and then moved to a staging area where a robotic arm inserts what are, presumably, the drone's engine components⁵. 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 promising⁶ 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 synthetic⁷ and materials chemistry and at some point in the future hope to assemble complex objects in a machine from the bottom up, or with minimal⁸ 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 convergent⁹ 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。

1 evoking   

产生，引起，唤起( evoke的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Some occur in organisms without evoking symptoms. 一些存在于生物体中，但不发生症状。
• Nowadays, the protection of traditional knowledge is evoking heat discussion worldwide. 目前，全球都掀起了保护传统知识的热潮。

2 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

3 molecular   

adj.分子的；克分子的

参考例句：

• The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms.这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。
• For the pressure to become zero, molecular bombardment must cease.当压强趋近于零时，分子的碰撞就停止了。

4 vat   

n.(=value added tax)增值税，大桶

参考例句：

• The office is asking for the vat papers.办事处要有关增值税的文件。
• His father emptied sacks of stale rye bread into the vat.他父亲把一袋袋发霉的黑面包倒进大桶里。

5 components   

（机器、设备等的）构成要素，零件，成分； 成分( component的名词复数 )； [物理化学]组分； [数学]分量； （混合物的）组成部分

参考例句：

• the components of a machine 机器部件
• Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。

6 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

7 synthetic   

adj.合成的，人工的；综合的；n.人工制品

参考例句：

• We felt the salesman's synthetic friendliness.我们感觉到那位销售员的虚情假意。
• It's a synthetic diamond.这是人造钻石。

8 minimal   

adj.尽可能少的，最小的

参考例句：

• They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
• I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家，所以我的花费很小。

9 convergent   

adj.会聚的

参考例句：

• A curved-inwards wall has a convergent effect on wall spray.凹型壁面对碰壁喷雾有聚集作用。
• If a sequence is not convergent,it is divergent.如果一个序列不收敛，我们称它发散。