Vermont University specialists in the United States found that biorobot have created by them have a self-reproduction ability. This is reported by the newspaper NewsCientist.
The world’s first xenobots, created from the frog cells, learned in laboratory conditions to form small structures, self-organization and move small “cargoes”. Experts noticed that when biorobots are collected in groups, they can form spheres from about three thousand cells within five days. New xenobots were reproduced from the cells.
Researchers found out that groups of 12 biorobots can work together, forming one or two new generations. “One xenobot parent can run the breeding process, and then by chance the second parent can place more cells in this pile of cells and so on,” said the lead author of Josh Bongard (Josh Bongard).
at each next round of replication is created less capable of self-reproducing offspring. So, in the end, xenobot in the last generation consist of less than 50 cells – they lose the ability to float and multiply.
Scientists have stressed that the replication process can be controlled. Using the algorithm, a team of specialists predicted which initial forms of xenobots can give the greatest offspring. With the help of your opening, the authors of the study will try to find out how the first organisms spread out on Earth.
University of Vermont University declared the development of the world’s first robots built from the living cells of the Xenopus Laevis Frog, early 2020. Xenobotics are able to move, self-organized and move microscopic “cargoes”.