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Xenobot - Worlds First Living Robot

World’s first living robot named as Xenobots are Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence. They are named after species of aquatic frog, Xenopus laevis. These tiny hybrid organisms measure only 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) wide and are made of living tissue assembled into bodies designed by computer models. Scientists used computer algorithms to evolve this organism that's made of 100% frog DNA — but it isn't a frog.  It is made up of materials like steel, plastics and chemical degrades over time

 Features of Xenobots :

·         These mobile organisms can move independently and collectively

·         They can self-heal wounds (if it is sliced it’ll pull itself together again) and survive for weeks at a time

·         A xenobot with a hole in it can pick up and carry things thus could potentially be used to transport medicines inside a patient's body, according to reports.

 

The algorithm designed produced generations of these tiny organisms. These bots evolve according to the survival of the fittest in the natural world. The best-performing bots would reproduce inside the algorithm the least successful forms would be deleted by the computer program.

 

Piecing stem cells together to form self-powered 3D shapes designed by the evolution algorithm scientists were able to make designs that were transferrable to real cells. For this project to be successful main task was to design a biological machine, which followed a straight process and automatically adjusts itself for stimulation to life. Skin cells held the xenobots together, and the beating of heart tissues in specific parts of their bodies propelled the bots through water in a petri dish for days, and even weeks at a stretch, without needing additional nutrients. The bots were even able to repair significant damage, according to the reports.

 

These Xenobots are neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal, but “a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism” which can change the way of incorporation of robotics in human world.

 


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