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Scientists have created the first ”living robots“: entirely new life-forms created out of living cells.
Cells were taken from frog embryos and turned into machine, for programming.
Tiny “xenobots” can transport medicine around a patient’s body or clean up pollution from the oceans.
Xenobots can regenerate and are entirely biodegradable when they die.
In the future, there will be xenobot with a pouch on the body that could be used to carry an object.
Researchers from Tufts University have created the xenobots.
Paper describing the team, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
