First-ever self-replicating robots
The Hindu
These Xenobots can swim out into a tiny dish, find single cells, gather hundreds of them, and assemble “baby” bots inside their mouth, which after a few days look and move just like the Xenobots.
Scientists from the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have created the first-ever, self-replicating robots, called Xenobots, that can reproduce.
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The Xenobot parent is made of 3,000 cells and forms a sphere.
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