AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine.
To persist, life must reproduce. Over billions of years, organisms have evolved many ways of replicating, from budding plants to sexual animals to invading viruses.
Now scientists have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction — and applied their discovery to create the first-ever, self-replicating living robots.
Meet the xnobot, The first living robot created from stem cells. Less than a millmeter wide, It is small enough to travel inside human bodies. It can walk , swim and survive for weeks without food.
Scientists created xenobots by using stem cells from frog embryos. The living cells were scraped from the frog embryos and then left to incubate. They were then cut open and reshped into specific body forms. The cells then began to work on their own. When a xenobot is sliced in to, It automatically repairs itself. Scientists say xenobots could be used to carry medicine inside human bodies.
They could also be used to clean up radioactive waste and collect micro plastics in the oceans.
