Scientists Design First ‘Living Robots’ In  Major Breakthrough

Scientists Design First ‘Living Robots’ In Major Breakthrough

A team of scientists has designed the world’s first living, self-healing robots using stem cells from frogs.Named xenobots after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which they take their stem cells, the machines are less than a millimeter thick.  The newly developed robots could be used to clean up radioactive waste, collect microplastics in the oceans, carry medicine inside human bodies, or even travel into our arteries to scrape out plaque. However, the current status of the xenobots is comparatively harmless, there is the potential for future work to include nervous system cells, or produce them into bioweapons.

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