Robert: The evolution and usefulness of organic robots

The first living robots, computer-designed and hand-assembled organisms, called “Xenobots” have been built from frog cells.

Health Tech World reports that Xenobots can swim out from their dish, gather single cells and then assemble them into ‘baby’ Xenobots. Only a few days later, the babies are full Xenobots that can move and reproduce like the originals. 

University of Michigan School of Information associate professor Lionel Robert says the ‘organic robots’ have the potential to help address many problems. Along the way, the Xenobots could continue to evolve, eventually creating a new species, but Robert notes that “we are a long way from that.”

Read “World’s first self-replicating living robots ‘could become a new species’” on htworld.com.uk.

Learn more about Associate Professor Lionel Robert.