{"id":161754,"date":"2023-04-08T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/an-ai-created-robots-out-of-living-tissue-then-they-started-to-reproduce-meet-the-xenobots"},"modified":"2023-04-08T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T23:22:18","slug":"an-ai-created-robots-out-of-living-tissue-then-they-started-to-reproduce-meet-the-xenobots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/an-ai-created-robots-out-of-living-tissue-then-they-started-to-reproduce-meet-the-xenobots","title":{"rendered":"An AI created robots out of living tissue. Then they started to reproduce\u2026 Meet the xenobots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ai-created-robots-out-of-living-tissue-then-they-started-to-reproduce-meet-the-xenobots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re going to make a xenobot, where do you start? Well, the Vermont team starts in a virtual Petri dish, on a computer, where an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/future-technology\/artificial-intelligence-ai\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) program \u2018evolves\u2019 bunches of frog cells, based on their shape, to perform whatever task it is the scientists are interested in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt creates a population of virtual xenobots, deletes the ones that do a poor job and makes randomly modified copies of the survivors,\u201d explains Bongard.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists tell the AI how many rounds of this artificial selection process to complete and in just a few seconds, they have their design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if you\u2019re going to make a xenobot, where do you start? Well, the Vermont team starts in a virtual Petri dish, on a computer, where an artificial intelligence (AI) program \u2018evolves\u2019 bunches of frog cells, based on their shape, to perform whatever task it is the scientists are interested in. \u201cIt creates a population [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161754","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}