Xenobots, the World's First Living Robots, Are Now Capable of Reproducing: 'This Is Profound'
Photo: Sam Kriegman and Douglas Blackiston Theworld’s first living robots, known as xenobots, have learned how to self-replicate, according to the scientists who developed them. Now, experts have found that xenobots — which are blob-like in appearance — have the capacity to reproduce in an “entirely new” way, scientists at the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University said Monday in apress release....