{"id":136372,"date":"2022-03-03T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/we-are-entering-the-era-of-ai-biological-robots-how-can-we-harness-this-powerful-innovation-so-it-doesnt-control-us"},"modified":"2022-03-03T07:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:02:40","slug":"we-are-entering-the-era-of-ai-biological-robots-how-can-we-harness-this-powerful-innovation-so-it-doesnt-control-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/we-are-entering-the-era-of-ai-biological-robots-how-can-we-harness-this-powerful-innovation-so-it-doesnt-control-us","title":{"rendered":"We are entering the era of AI biological robots. How can we harness this powerful innovation so it doesn\u2019t control us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-entering-the-era-of-ai-biological-robots-how-can-we-harness-this-powerful-innovation-so-it-doesnt-control-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It should come as little surprise that pioneering work in biological robotics is as controversial as it is exciting. Take for example the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1089\/genbio.2022.29007.wra#B5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> published in December 2021 in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> by Sam Kreigman and Douglas Blackiston at Tufts University and colleagues. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1089\/genbio.2022.29007.wra#B5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, entitled \u201cKinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms,\u201d is the third installment of the authors\u2019 \u201cxenobots\u201d series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should come as little surprise that pioneering work in biological robotics is as controversial as it is exciting. Take for example the article published in December 2021 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Sam Kreigman and Douglas Blackiston at Tufts University and colleagues. This article, entitled \u201cKinematic self-replication in reconfigurable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136372","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\/136372","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}