In early 2020 a team of computer scientists from the University of Vermont and biologists at Tufts University built “biological robots” for the first time. A little more than a year later, the same ...

With the help of a supercomputer, scientists have built tiny machines comprised entirely made of biological materials. Able to survive for days and even weeks, these xenobots could eventually be used ...

The team dubbed these structures xenobots. While the prefix was derived from the Latin name of the African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) that supplied the cells, it also seemed fitting because of its ...

Scientists have created tiny machines comprised of biological materials that could one day heal our bodies or clean up the environment. The "xenobot," which is 1 millimeter wide, is described as a ...

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A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots.” This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their recipe for ...

The living robots are a combination of heart and skin stem cells from the African clawed frog. The tiny “xenobots” can move on their own for about a week before running out of energy, heal themselves ...

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 ...

Living, moving, self-replicating robots funded by the U.S. military. No, that's not a sci-fi thriller coming to a theater near you. It's "xenobots," microscopic computer-designed robots made entirely ...

The researchers let the cell clusters assemble in the right proportions and then used micro-manipulation tools to move or eliminate cells—essentially poking and carving them into shapes like those ...