Xenobots, the world’s first living robots

https://www.growbyginkgo.com/2020/06/29/is-dna-hardware-or-software/

by ofou • 5 years ago

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Sporktacular• 5 years ago

Mmm, are they though? https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/mobile-clusters-of-c...

r00fus• 5 years ago

Definitely seems like cargo-cult artificial life. A semblance of living, reproducing devices - is that really useful?

LetThereBeLight• 5 years ago

Should add 2020 to the title. This is the relevant paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853

I am curious to hear what HN thinks of calling these things robots. These are frog embryos that have been surgically reshaped and had muscle cells implanted in them.

drclau• 5 years ago

While this is amazing technology and there will no doubt be useful applications for such devices (for lack of a better word) in various fields, do we really need to play with fire and make them self-replicating?

fao_• 5 years ago

It's necessary for it in the first place, given that they placed evolutionary constraints on it for it to work.

Xenobots, the world’s first living robots

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