New DARPA synthetic life forms “xenobots” use new reproductive method never used by any organisms before!

The xenobots don’t just reproduce, they have spontaneously found a new way to reproduce that has never been used by any organism on Earth.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/30/worlds-first-living-robots-can-now-reproduce-scientists-say/

These first 'living robots' make 'babies' in their mouths

+ The millimetre-sized machines, are neither traditional robots nor animasl, but programmable organisms
+ The organisms gather cells inside a Pac-Man-shaped 'mouth' & release 'babies'

Read more: https://t.co/5STi4Gw4rB pic.twitter.com/oxoBOVMmrz

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 30, 2021

Xenobots 3.0 uses stem cells from the same frog species

+ A few days later, these 'babies' become new Xenobots that look and move just like their 'parents'

+They can go out, find cells, and build copies of themselves

Read more: https://t.co/5STi4Gw4rB

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 30, 2021

#Gravitas | Forget losing your job to robots, scientists have created robots that can reproduce. #Xenobots are capable of 'self-replicating' themselves. They are made up of stem cells taken from frogs. Astounded? Watch this report by @palkisu for the details pic.twitter.com/E3PU1WECBd

— WION (@WIONews) November 30, 2021

Scientists call #Xenobots "the first-ever, self-replicating living robots." The discovery is unlike reproductive methods ever seen in plants and animals.https://t.co/ODWUGqLEsa

— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) November 30, 2021

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