{"id":121468,"date":"2021-04-12T21:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/xenobots-living-biological-robots-that-work-in-swarms"},"modified":"2021-04-12T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:22:56","slug":"xenobots-living-biological-robots-that-work-in-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/xenobots-living-biological-robots-that-work-in-swarms","title":{"rendered":"Xenobots: Living, Biological Robots that Work in Swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/xenobots-living-biological-robots-that-work-in-swarms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Tufts scientists were creating the physical xenobot organisms, researchers working in parallel at the University of Vermont used a supercomputer to run simulations to try and find ways of assembling these living robots in order to perform useful tasks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists at Tufts University have created a strange new hybrid biological\/mechanical organism that\u2019s made of living cells, but operates like a robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Tufts scientists were creating the physical xenobot organisms, researchers working in parallel at the University of Vermont used a supercomputer to run simulations to try and find ways of assembling these living robots in order to perform useful tasks. Scientists at Tufts University have created a strange new hybrid biological\/mechanical organism that\u2019s made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121468","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}