Scientists have created the first 'living robots' that can REPRODUCE
Say hello to Xenobots 3.0!
+ The world's first self-replicating living robots
+ A potential breakthrough for regenerative medicine
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These first 'living robots' make 'babies' in their mouths
+ The millimetre-sized machines, are neither traditional robots nor animasl, but programmable organisms
+ The organisms gather cells inside a Pac-Man-shaped 'mouth' & release 'babies'
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The self-replicating bio-robots - made from frog cells - could allow more personalised drug treatment
+ For traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, ageing and more
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Xenobots 3.0 uses stem cells from the same frog species
+ A few days later, these 'babies' become new Xenobots that look and move just like their 'parents'
+They can go out, find cells, and build copies of themselves
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In a Xenopus laevis frog, these embryonic stem cells would usually develop into skin
+ 'They would be sitting on the outside of a tadpole, keeping out pathogens and redistributing mucus'
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On its own, the Xenobot parent, made of some 3,000 cells, forms a sphere
+ But it can't reproduce effectively over several generations
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Xenobots are entirely contained in a lab, are easily extinguished, and are vetted by federal, state and institutional ethics experts
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