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December 22 , 2021 863 days 804 0
  • Scientists have witnessed a never-before-seen type of self-replication in the world’s first living robots (Xenobots).
  • These are created in the lab using frog cells.
  • Xenobots are synthetic life forms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues.
  • Xenobots are named after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis).
  • The world’s first Xenobots were developed in 2020 by assembling African clawed frog cells.
  • One day these Xenobots could be programmed to perform useful functions such as finding cancer cells in the human body or trapping harmful microplastics in the ocean.

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