According to an article on CNN, US scientists have created the first living robots, known as xenobots, which can now reproduce in a way not seen in plants and animals. These tiny blobs were formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and are less than a millimeter wide1. They were first unveiled in 2020 after experiments showed that they could move, work together in groups, and self-heal1. The scientists who developed them at the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction different from any animal or plant known to science

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