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Xenobots, the world’s first living robots
- Sporktacular 5y agoMmm, are they though? https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/mobile-clusters-of-cells-can-help-assemble-a-mini-version-of-themselves/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/mobile-clusters-of-c...
- r00fus 5y agoDefinitely seems like cargo-cult artificial life. A semblance of living, reproducing devices - is that really useful?
- LetThereBeLight 5y agoShould add 2020 to the title. This is the relevant paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853 I am curious to hear what HN thinks of calling these things robots. These are frog embryos that have been surgically reshaped and had muscle cells implanted in them.
- drclau 5y agoWhile this is amazing technology and there will no doubt be useful applications for such devices (for lack of a better word) in various fields, do we really need to play with fire and make them self-replicating?
- fao_ 5y agoIt's necessary for it in the first place, given that they placed evolutionary constraints on it for it to work.