Scientists Create World's First 'Living Robots' Using Frog Stem Cells

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Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://go.uvm.edu/firstrbts

These tiny “xenobots” can move toward a target and heal themselves after being cut.

“These are novel living machines,” says UVM robotics expert Joshua Bongard.

They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal.

It’s a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.

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