Article: Not bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism

A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”. This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their recipe for making a new lifeform called xenobots from stem cells. The term “xeno” comes from the frog cells (Xenopus laevis) used to make them.

https://theconversation.com/not-bot-not-beast-scientists-create-first-ever-living-programmable-organism-129980

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