Biological robots made from frog cells can replicate by smooshing loose ... says in a press release from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute. Xenobots were first born when scientists extracted skin ...

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These xenobots have challenged conventional categories: Are they robots, living things, or machines? While the categorization of these synthetic living organisms may need to be redefined into a new ...

In 2020, US scientists created the first living robots, called xenobots. Now researchers have discovered a new form of biological reproduction – xenobots can self-replicate – in a way that is ...

An AI-designed, Pac-Man-shaped “parent” organism (in red) beside stem cells that have been compressed into a ball—the “offspring” (green). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...