{"id":223123,"date":"2025-10-09T03:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-embodied-mind-of-a-new-robot-scientist-by-michael-levin"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:06:57","slug":"the-embodied-mind-of-a-new-robot-scientist-by-michael-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-embodied-mind-of-a-new-robot-scientist-by-michael-levin","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Embodied Mind of a New Robot Scientist\u201d by Michael Levin"},"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\/ot-pmnqyBbU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a ~58 minute talk titled \u201cThe Embodied Mind of a New Robot Scientist: symmetries between AI and bioengineering the agential material of life and their impact on technology and on our future\u201d which I gave as a closing Keynote to the ALIFE conference in Japan (<a href=\"https:\/\/2025.alife.org\/).\">https:\/\/2025.alife.org\/).<\/a> This is a different talk than any I\u2019ve done before, in that besides going over the remarkable capacities of living material, I discuss 1) the symmetries between how all agents navigate their world and how science discoveries are made, and 2) a new robot scientist platform that we have created. With respect to the latter, I discuss how the body and mind of this new embodied AI can serve as a translation and integration layer between human scientists and living matter such as the cells which make up Xenobots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a ~58 minute talk titled \u201cThe Embodied Mind of a New Robot Scientist: symmetries between AI and bioengineering the agential material of life and their impact on technology and on our future\u201d which I gave as a closing Keynote to the ALIFE conference in Japan (https:\/\/2025.alife.org\/). This is a different talk than any [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223123","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=223123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}