In July 2017, I sat in on a closed-door meeting coordinated by the State Department and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. In the room were research scientists, government ...

With the help of a supercomputer, scientists have built tiny machines comprised entirely made of biological materials. Able to survive for days and even weeks, these xenobots could eventually be used ...

The living robot 'Xenobot ' reconstructed from the cells of the frog's lungs was announced in 2020 and attracted a great deal of attention. Although it is a robot, it is an organism and can move, but ...

The world's first 'living robots' have been successfully developed by a group of researchers including Josh Bongard, who studies evolutionary robotics at the University of Vermont, and Michael Levin, ...

Living, moving, self-replicating robots funded by the U.S. military. No, that's not a sci-fi thriller coming to a theater near you. It's "xenobots," microscopic computer-designed robots made entirely ...