According to a recent CNN article, robotic life forms can now reproduce, but not how plants or animals do it. The living robots, aka xenobots, were developed by researchers at the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The team unveiled the xenobots, which were formed from African clawed frog stem cells, last year after their experiments showed they were mobile, worked together, and self-healed. Now, they can reproduce, but not in a traditional way.
Living Robots Can Now Reproduce, and I’m Terrified
Researchers from three institutions collaborated to create living robots, and now they can reproduce on their own.
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