Jan 28, 2022
Xenobots — Novel Synthetic Life Forms At The Intersection Of Biology & Information Science
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: alien life, environmental, information science, robotics/AI, science
Learnings For Regenerative Morphogenesis, Astro-Biology And The Evolution Of Minds — Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University, and Dr. Josh Bongard, University of Vermont.
Xenobots are living micro-robots, built from cells, designed and programmed by a computer (an evolutionary algorithm) and have been demonstrated to date in the laboratory to move towards a target, pick up a payload, heal themselves after being cut, and reproduce via a process called kinematic self-replication.