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Team builds first living robots that can reproduce

AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine

Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Vermont

Xenobot 3.0: A Self-Replicating Living Robot

image: An AI-designed, Pac-Man-shaped “parent” organism (in red) beside stem cells that have been compressed into a ball—the “offspring” (green). view more 

Credit: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI

10.1073/pnas.2112672118

Method of Research

Experimental study

Subject of Research

Cells

Article Title

Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms

Article Publication Date

29-Nov-2021

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