General / Off-Topic Xenobots from the mind of mad scientists or maybe not so mad....

[lysan]

Team Builds the First Living Robots | UVM News | The University of Vermont

www.uvm.edu

The dead cells have been repurposed to serve another need.

Now a team of scientists has repurposed living cells—scraped from frog embryos—and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. These millimeter-wide "xenobots" can move toward a target, perhaps pick up a payload (like a medicine that needs to be carried to a specific place inside a patient)—and heal themselves after being cut.

 

[Robin of Spiritwood]

The dead cells have been repurposed to serve another need.

Now a team of scientists has repurposed living cells—scraped from frog embryos—and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. These millimeter-wide "xenobots" can move toward a target, perhaps pick up a payload (like a medicine that needs to be carried to a specific place inside a patient)—and heal themselves after being cut.

It took several rereads, but it does seem that these ... things? .... are not at all dead. ( Blade Runner is here, at a cellular level. Crap this is happenning fast.)
They heal after being split into two.

So- they might be able to reproduce by binary fission... And they are designed by AI.

Gee. That sounds familiar.

 

[metatheurgist]

Yep, this sound like a terrible thing waiting to happen.

 

[lysan]

Yup, just what I was thinking when I read the article.

 

[Han_Zen]

Yep, this sound like a terrible thing waiting to happen.

It works for the Thargoids.

 

[Caramel Clown]

Good old cellular necromancy. What can possibly go wrong

 

[lysan]

Good old cellular necromancy. What can possibly go wrong

It will all be fine .....