The xenobots are programmable in the sense that their rudimentary behaviours are mostly pre-determined by their initial shapes. Joshua Bongard, a University of Vermont computer scientist and robotics expert, referred to them in a press release last January as “novel living machines” that are a “new class of artefact: a living, programmable organism.” ![]() The xenobots are genetically unmodified, cultivated stem cell bundles of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. The robots in question aren’t little constructions of silicon and metal - instead, they’re biological machines called xenobots that University of Vermont and Tufts University researchers first described last year. ![]() ![]() Researchers who developed what they say are the world’s first living robots now report they can reproduce in an unprecedented way, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.
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