“Xenobot” Living Robots Can Reproduce

[MechAg94]

“Xenobot” Living Robots Can Reproduce
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/xenobot-living-robots-can-reproduce-69477

“These are frog cells replicating in a way that is very different from how frogs do it. No animal or plant known to science replicates in this way,” Harvard University synthetic biologist and roboticist Sam Kriegman, co-lead author on the PNAS paper describing the discovery, says in a press release from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute.

I am wondering why they call them robots at all.  Seems to me it is only extract frog cells doing something different than they expect.  The headline makes it sound like more than it is.  I wonder if someone needs funding.

Xenobots – US Scientists Create Tiny Living Robots That Can Reproduce
https://www.voanews.com/a/xenobots-us-scientists-create-tiny-living-robots-that-can-reproduce/6341187.html

[Devonai]

Who had Killer Cyberfrogs in their 2022 pool?

[BobR]

Now let's give them some brain cells and teach them to play Frogger! :)

https://futurism.com/the-byte/brain-cells-play-pong


bob

[griz]

New thread:  What caliber for Xenobot Cyberfrogs?

[230RN]

Endpoint?

I can't help but think of Kahn's "Oh sweet mystery of life" song in Young Fronkenshteen.

[WLJ]

Who had Killer Cyberfrogs in their 2022 pool?