xenobot
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Xenobots, named after the clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues. There is debate among scientists whether xenobots are robots, organisms, or something else entirely.
Key facts
- Machine.name
- Xenobot
- Machine.image
- A xenobot in simulation and reality.png
- Machine.caption
- A xenobot design discovered in simulation (left) and the deployed organism (right) built from frog skin (green) and heart muscle (red)
- Machine.industry
- Robotics, Synthetic biology
- Machine.application
- Medicine, environmental remediation
- Machine.dimensions
- Microscale
- Machine.lifespan
- 7-10 days
- Machine.fuel_source
- Nutrients
- Machine.self propelled
- Yes
- Machine.components
- Frog cells
- Machine.invented
- 2020
- Machine.inventor
- Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, Josh Bongard
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Existing xenobots
- Potential applications
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Xenobots, named after the clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues. There is debate among scientists whether xenobots are robots, organisms, or something else entirely.
== Existing xenobots ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “xenobot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.