{"id":131573,"date":"2021-12-01T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T17:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/xenobots-team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce"},"modified":"2021-12-01T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T17:23:26","slug":"xenobots-team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/xenobots-team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce","title":{"rendered":"Xenobots: Team Builds First Living Robots That Can Reproduce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/xenobots-team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Researchers report Xenobots, a computer-designed, hand-assembled organism can find and gather single cells, and assemble \u201cbaby\u201d Xenobots. After a few days, the immature Xanobots can also find cells and replicate themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Source: University of Vermont.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers report Xenobots, a computer-designed, hand-assembled organism can find and gather single cells, and assemble \u201cbaby\u201d Xenobots. After a few days, the immature Xanobots can also find cells and replicate themselves. Source: University of Vermont. To persist, life must reproduce. Over billions of years, organisms have evolved many ways of replicating, from budding plants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131573","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}