“Life harbors surprising behaviors just below the surface, waiting to be uncovered”: Living robots made of frog cells are found to be able to reproduce in a completely novel way
, that robots made from frog skin and heart cells are alive – the world’s first ‘living robots.’by the University of Vermont announces that “scientists have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction — and applied their discovery to create the first-ever, self-replicating living robots.”
Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont who co-led the new research, says “With the right design — they will spontaneously self-replicate.”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “We asked the supercomputer at UVM to figure out how to adjust the shape of the initial parents, and the AI came up with some strange designs after months of chugging away, including one that resembled Pac-Man,” says Kriegman.
Bongard puts forward the race to find vaccines for multiple strains of the coronavirus as an example. “The speed at which we can produce solutions matters deeply. If we can develop technologies, learning from Xenobots, where we can quickly tell the AI,: ‘We need a biological tool that does X and Y and suppresses Z,’ —that could be very beneficial. Today, that takes an exceedingly long time.”
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