Xenobot

[udg]

Have you ever heard about xenobots? Google around. There are tens of documents (most replicate a common source).
It's a glimpse in the future. A new technology that will pave our road to a better world...or a complete disaster.
As always, technology and knowledge are neutral, but the way we use them makes for a better or worse living for all.

Just a few search results:

Team builds first living robots—that can reproduce

By Joshua Brown, University of Vermont Communications (BURLINGTON, Vermont) – To persist, life must reproduce. Over billions of years, organisms have evolved many ways of replicating, from budding plants to sexual animals to invading viruses. Now scientists at the University of Vermont, Tufts...

wyss.harvard.edu

Living robots made from frog cells can replicate themselves in a dish

Swarms of tiny "xenobots" can self-replicate in the lab by pushing loose cells together – the first time this form of reproduction has been seen in multicellular organisms

www.newscientist.com

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say | CNN

The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can reproduce in a way not seen in plants and animals.

edition.cnn.com

 

[amorosik]

What language are these xenobots programmed in?
I've always said so myself about my programs, they do what they want, they seem alive
?

 

[agraham]

It's all been rather over-hyped. See a more rational explanation of what they are written by a 15 year experienced biological researcher turned science journalist.

Interesting research, but no, we don’t have living, reproducing robots

Don’t believe the hype—this isn’t reproduction or replication.

arstechnica.com

 

[udg]

It's all been rather over-hyped.

As always. This announcements are useful to give the broad public a glimpse on what could be a not so close future. Or, at least, on what they're doing in those labs..
Surely most of the research would end in a blind alley, but this is just how our knowledge improves over time.
Combining nanotechnology with AI (or cell manipulation and AI) will lead to "interesting" points. Something we should, at least partially, fear about..
Let's hope for the best.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

or a complete disaster.

Yikes - you mean worse than right now?

There's too much "tinkering" going on there - it seems.

Let's hope for the best.

That's all been rather over-hyped ... like ->

technology and knowledge

Think I'll just stay out here in the bush and let the Xenobots run around in the Dorppies (villages) thanks.