{"id":112863,"date":"2020-09-10T22:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-worlds-first-living-machines"},"modified":"2020-09-10T22:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:24:24","slug":"the-worlds-first-living-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-worlds-first-living-machines","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s First Living Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-first-living-machines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teeny-tiny living robots made their world debut earlier this year. These microscopic organisms are composed entirely of frog stem cells, and, thanks to a special computer algorithm, they can take on different shapes and perform simple functions: crawling, traveling in circles, moving small objects \u2014 or even joining with other organic bots to collectively perform tasks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The world\u2019s first living robots may one day clean up our oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teeny-tiny living robots made their world debut earlier this year. These microscopic organisms are composed entirely of frog stem cells, and, thanks to a special computer algorithm, they can take on different shapes and perform simple functions: crawling, traveling in circles, moving small objects \u2014 or even joining with other organic bots to collectively perform [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112863","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}