Self Replicating AI:
The same team that built the first living robots (“Xenbots,” assembled from frog cells—reported in 2020) has discovered that these computer-designed and hand-assembled organisms can swim out into their tiny dish, find single cells, gather hundreds of them together, and assemble “baby” Xenobots inside their Pac-Man-shaped “mouth”—that, a few days later, become new Xenobots that look and move just like themselves.
>And then these new Xenobots can go out, find cells, and build copies of themselves. Again and again.
>“People have thought for quite a long time that we’ve worked out all the ways that life can reproduce or replicate. But this is something that’s never been observed before,”
>“These are frog cells replicating in a way that is very different from how frogs do it. No animal or plant known to science replicates in this way,”
Article: https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce/
Study: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2112672118
The same team that built the first living robots (“Xenbots,” assembled from frog cells—reported in 2020) has discovered that these computer-designed and hand-assembled organisms can swim out into their tiny dish, find single cells, gather hundreds of them together, and assemble “baby” Xenobots inside their Pac-Man-shaped “mouth”—that, a few days later, become new Xenobots that look and move just like themselves.
>And then these new Xenobots can go out, find cells, and build copies of themselves. Again and again.
>“People have thought for quite a long time that we’ve worked out all the ways that life can reproduce or replicate. But this is something that’s never been observed before,”
>“These are frog cells replicating in a way that is very different from how frogs do it. No animal or plant known to science replicates in this way,”
Article: https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce/
Study: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2112672118
