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What are XenoBots?

Xenobots or you can say human made living lifeforms are the type of robot which are made of living tissues and cells to work at microscopic level for different purposes like drug delivery to specific part of the body, collecting microplastics in the oceans and seas to make a large blob, etc.

These synthetic robots are made of skin cells and heart muscle cells derived from stem cells which are took from frog embryos. Here, skin cells works as protection shield for heart cells where heart cells drive the xenobots moving mechanism. The structure of the bots are designed in computer  simulation using evolutionary algorithms that uses trial and error method. 

Xenobots are capable enough to move inside living bodies and have life of weeks. These bots are also able to heal themselves. Xenobots are able to work in swarm to execute large task to move some specific  material at microscopic levels. They have ability to self replicate new xenobots with same features. Xenobots have size of aorund 0.4 millimeters.

First xenobots were made using AI program developed by Sam Kriegman. “We asked the supercomputer at UVM to figure out how to adjust the shape of the initial parents, and the AI came up with some strange designs after months of chugging away, including one that resembled Pac-Man,” says Kriegman.

In current world, xenobots are in completely experimental research frame and more use cases are being tried to find out.

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