Xenobots, then the world’s first living robots, were developed in 2020 from the stem cells of African frogs. These are less than one millimeter wide non-specialized cells, which have already surprised over the past year by being they can move on their own, heal a work together in a group. But now scientists have come with a new fascinating discovery and that is that xenobots can as well reproduce themselves, informs CNN.
Researchers at Harvard University, the University of Vermont and Tufts University, who developed xenobots, have now come up with new insights. The robots they can reproduce themselves and their mode of reproduction yet no one has ever seen. It does not resemble either the animal or the plant, and living robots thus reproduce in their own way.
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„It’s amazing. Frogs have their own way of reproducing, which they normally multiply, but when we separated their cells from the rest of the embryo and gave them a chance for a new life, they invented their own movement, but also a new way of reproducing,Said biology professor and co-author Michael Levin.
Xenobots were developed by scientists taking live stem cells from frog embryos and incubating them. The non-specialized cells then learned how to get together communicate, how to reproduce and how to move. „Most people think that robots are made of metals and ceramics. It’s not even about what the robot is made of, but about what it does, that is, that it can act and decide independently,Added the study’s lead author Josh Bongard.
They were probably used for reproduction kinetic replication, i.e., a process that is known to occur at the molecular level and is the first time it has been observed in whole cells.
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