Jan 18, 2020
Meet the xenobot: world’s first living, self-healing robots created from frog stem cells
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, food, robotics/AI
Scientists have created the world’s first living, self-healing robots using stem cells from frogs.
Named xenobots after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which they take their stem cells, the machines are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide — small enough to travel inside human bodies. They can walk and swim, survive for weeks without food and work together in groups.
These are “entirely new life-forms,” said the University of Vermont, which conducted the research with Tufts University.