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Xenobots are Artificially Designed Reproducing Robots Made of Living Cells
Yup, for real
The world is changing fast — socially, environmentally, scientifically, and technologically. It also seems like more categories are increasingly blending. Such as the organoid intelligence (OI) I wrote about in my Newsletter, which blends biology and technology.
But you’d be mistaken if you thought OI was the only future of this new technology. In addition to OI, or I suppose another branch of it, is Xenobots. While OI blends living brain cells with artificial intelligence to create biocomputers, xenobots are artificially designed robots made entirely of living cells.
What’s A Xenobot?
The fields of biology and engineering have increasingly overlapped over the past few decades. Initially, the idea behind blending the two was advancing medicine by finding ways to engineer replacement tissue for medical applications. As the years progressed, though, scientists became excited about the possibility of creating organisms that don’t already exist in the natural world.
Enter Xenobots, which are made of actual living tissue, but algorithms design them on a supercomputer. That’s right, a supercomputer uses an algorithm to create various xenobot blueprints, and then scientists use pick through…
