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The Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life
- erikig 7y agoSo as I understand it, biologists and computer scientists take clumps of frog embryo cells and engineer their shapes to allow them to perform specific tasks? Fascinating!
- cellular 7y agoI wonder if they could use simple rules to get emergent behaviour like this: https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w
- pgt 7y ago"All of which makes xenobots amazing and maybe slightly unsettling — golems dreamed in silicon and then written into flesh." 'Golem' is the right word. Something about seeing these artificial "organisms" thrash about bothers me.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 7y agoWhile part of me immediately fears biological variation of the Iron Wind, I absolutely enjoyed the article. This is really what I come to HN for. What did trouble me somewhat is the ending where the author effectively says, and I am paraphrasing, that bothering with ethics of it in a world, where we, as a species, demonstrably do not follow ethics is kinda silly ( he lists human designed pathogens as a way to substantiate it). I had trouble accepting that argument that despite knowing that factually he is correct. edit: replaced true at the end with "factually he is correct"
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- pjmlp 7y agoFor a moment it got me thinking it was about these Xenobots, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dp6Rlf-2Wg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dp6Rlf-2Wg
- codeisawesome 7y agoThis is groundbreaking - and the very fact that it is possible, is mind-bending... I really liked the possibility that these 'machines' can be 'evolved' into agglomerating ocean microplastics into collectable balls!