{"id":101509,"date":"2020-01-28T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/scientists-build-first-living-robots-from-frog-stem-cells"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:03:57","slug":"scientists-build-first-living-robots-from-frog-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/scientists-build-first-living-robots-from-frog-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build \u201cFirst Living Robots\u201d From Frog Stem Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XLI7VtjgOyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-01\/uov-tbt010820.php\">have built<\/a> what they claim to be the first living robots. The \u201cxenobots,\u201d they say, can move, pick up objects, and even heal themselves after being cut.<\/p>\n<p>The team is hoping the biological machines could one day be used to clean up microplastics in the ocean or even deliver drugs inside the human body, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/13\/scientists-use-stem-cells-from-frogs-to-build-first-living-robots\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To build the robots, the team used living cells from frog embryos and assembled them into primitive beings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers have built what they claim to be the first living robots. The \u201cxenobots,\u201d they say, can move, pick up objects, and even heal themselves after being cut. The team is hoping the biological machines could one day be used to clean up microplastics in the ocean or even deliver drugs inside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101509","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=101509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}