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© Doug Blackiston Using a fluorescent protein, Xenobots record exposure to blue light, by turning green.Last year, a team of biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) created novel, tiny self-healing biological machines from frog cells called "Xenobots" that could move around, push a payload, and even exhibit collective behavior in the presence of a swarm of other Xenobots. Get ready for Xenobots 2.0. The same team has now created life forms...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/500606.html (Natural News) Researchers created the first living, self-healing robots using stem cells from frogs. Named “xenobots” after the African clawed frog ( Xenopus laevis) from which the stem cells were taken, the machines look like tiny blobs of wiggling pink flesh. “These are novel living machines,” said Joshua Bongard, a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont (UVM) and one of the study researchers. “They’re neither a t...