{"id":131468,"date":"2021-11-29T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:22:19","slug":"team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce","title":{"rendered":"Team builds first living robots that can reproduce"},"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\/aBYtBXaxsOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To persist, life must reproduce. Over billions of years, organisms have evolved many ways of replicating, from budding plants to sexual animals to invading viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction\u2014and applied their discovery to create the first-ever, self-replicating living robots.<\/p>\n<p>The same team that built the first living robots (<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2020-01-team-robots.html\">\u201d Xenobots,\u201d assembled from frog cells\u2014reported in 2020<\/a>) has discovered that these computer-designed and hand-assembled organisms can swim out into their tiny dish, find <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/single+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single cells<\/a>, gather hundreds of them together, and assemble \u201cbaby\u201d Xenobots inside their Pac-Man-shaped \u201cmouth\u201d\u2014that, a few days later, become new Xenobots that look and move just like themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To persist, life must reproduce. Over billions of years, organisms have evolved many ways of replicating, from budding plants to sexual animals to invading viruses. Now scientists have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction\u2014and applied their discovery to create the first-ever, self-replicating living robots. The same team that built the first living robots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131468","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}