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Xénobot: the first living robot created from frog cells by an AI




by sen-no-sen » 15/01/20, 23:09

Computer-designed frogs: scientists create the first living robots
After simulating the perfect prototype on a supercomputer, scientists sculpted frog cells to turn them into "living machines".

Half robots, half living organisms. Scientists at the Universities of Vermont (UMV) and Tufts, in the United States, have successfully created, by combining a computer program and frog cells, "xenobots". Measuring a few millimeters wide, these living and programmable organisms are, for the moment, capable of performing only basic actions such as moving around, pushing small objects and regenerating after being injured. But they could, one day, be used as medical tools, detect radioactive contamination or even ... Clean up the oceans, announced the researchers in their study published this Monday, January 13 in the journal PNAS.

"These are new living machines," said Josh Bongard, computer scientist expert in robotics at UVM and co-author of the study, in a press release. "They are not traditional robots or an animal species. known, but from a new category of artefact: a living and programmable organism ". These creatures were first engineered in a UVM supercomputer and then put together by biologists at Tufts who used stem cells from frogs. "We can imagine many applications for these living robots: detecting dangerous or radioactive materials, recovering microplastics present in the oceans or even traveling inside the human body in order to clean the arteries", explains Michael Levin, director of the Center. of Tufts Biology and also co-author of the study.

https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/sciences/grenouilles-androides-des-scientifiques-creent-les-premiers-robots-vivants_2114063.html

Another article on futura:https://www.futura-sciences.com/tech/actualites/robotique-premier-robot-vivant-fabrique-partir-cellules-79186/

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by GuyGadebois » 15/01/20, 23:14

sen-no-sen wrote:Measuring a few millimeters wide, these living and programmable organisms are, for the moment, capable of performing only basic actions such as moving around, pushing small objects and regenerating after being injured. But they could, one day, be used as medical tools, detect radioactive contamination or even ... Clean up the oceans, announced the researchers in their study published this Monday, January 13 in the journal PNAS.

They could also convey microbes, viruses, to infect "whoever you want", spy, sabotage, multiply in an anarchic manner, etc, etc ... We are really off!
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by sen-no-sen » 15/01/20, 23:17

No fear since this is the DARPA who finances the works ...
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by GuyGadebois » 15/01/20, 23:19

Ah yes, indeed! : Lol:
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by Christophe » 16/01/20, 09:02

sen-no-sen wrote:No fear since this is the DARPA who finances the works ...


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by Janic » 16/01/20, 13:32

you take a frog you tell her jump, she jumps; you cut off her legs and tell her to jump, and she doesn't jump. Conclusion if you cut the legs of a frog, it becomes deaf. It's about the same barrel, it's just a little more complex, it's like playing with DNA and GMOs.
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by sen-no-sen » 16/01/20, 18:15

Janic wrote:you take a frog you tell her jump, she jumps; you cut off her legs and tell her to jump, and she doesn't jump. Conclusion if you cut the legs of a frog, it becomes deaf. It's about the same barrel, it's just a little more complex, it's like playing with DNA and GMOs.


It's a little more complex than that Janic ... this kind of technology opens the door to the transition to machine / living fusion.
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by GuyGadebois » 16/01/20, 18:20

sen-no-sen wrote:
Janic wrote:you take a frog you tell her jump, she jumps; you cut off her legs and tell her to jump, and she doesn't jump. Conclusion if you cut the legs of a frog, it becomes deaf. It's about the same barrel, it's just a little more complex, it's like playing with DNA and GMOs.


It's a little more complex than that Janic ... this kind of technology opens the door to the transition to machine / living fusion.

And it's terrifying. Magnificent support for the most dangerous nanotechnologies to come.
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by Janic » 16/01/20, 18:42

It's a little more complex than that Janic ... this kind of technology opens the door to the transition to machine / living fusion.
we are far from it because, even supposing it, nobody can say if it is the machine which will dominate or the living one.
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by GuyGadebois » 16/01/20, 18:44

Janic wrote:
It's a little more complex than that Janic ... this kind of technology opens the door to the transition to machine / living fusion.
we are far from it because, even supposing it, nobody can say if it is the machine which will dominate or the living one.

We're not far away, we're in the middle of it.
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