{"id":101028,"date":"2020-01-18T01:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/meet-the-xenobot-worlds-first-living-self-healing-robots-created-from-frog-stem-cells"},"modified":"2020-01-18T01:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T09:07:14","slug":"meet-the-xenobot-worlds-first-living-self-healing-robots-created-from-frog-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/meet-the-xenobot-worlds-first-living-self-healing-robots-created-from-frog-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Meet the xenobot: world\u2019s first living, self-healing robots created from frog stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-xenobot-worlds-first-living-self-healing-robots-created-from-frog-stem-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created the world\u2019s first living, self-healing robots using stem cells from frogs.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 small enough to travel inside human bodies. They can walk and swim, survive for weeks without food and work together in groups.<\/p>\n<p>These are \u201centirely new life-forms,\u201d said the University of Vermont, which conducted the research with Tufts University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created the world\u2019s 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 \u2014 small enough to travel inside human bodies. They can walk and swim, survive for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}