billions of years, from budding plants to sexual animals Viruses, organisms have evolved a variety of ways to reproduce in order to continue life. Recently, a research team from the University of Vermont and Tufts University in the United States discovered a new way of biological reproduction, and used this discovery to create the first ever self-reproducing living robot-Xenobots 3.0, which may be the future Provide more direct and personalized drug treatments for trauma, birth defects, cancer, aging, etc. The results of the study were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the 29th.
Xenobots 3.0 is only millimeters wide. It is neither a traditional robot nor an animal, but a living, programmable organism.
The researchers found that if enough heterogeneous robots are placed close to each other in a petri dish, they will gather and start stacking other single stem cells floating in the solution . As a result, as many as hundreds of stem cells have assembled “baby” alien robots in their “mouths” shaped like Pac-Man. In a few days, these “babies” will become new alien robots that look and act like their mothers. Then these new Xenobots can go out again to find cells and build their own “copy”, just like that, repeating again and again.