BOSTON - Xenobots, also known as the world’s first living robots, have the capability to reproduce, according to a recent study from the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University.

Swarms of tiny living robots can self-replicate in a dish by pushing loose cells together. The xenobots – made from frog cells – are the first multicellular organisms found to reproduce in this way.

Researchers have achieved something that sounds like the beginning of a science fiction movie - living robots that have learned to reproduce. Pac-Man-shaped xenobots gathering stem cells into piles, ...

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American scientists who created the Xenobots, the first living robots, from frog embryo cells reported Monday that they can now reproduce. They explained the process they observed, the robots are able ...

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