Humans have long been obsessed with the idea of machines being able to self-replicate and a number of experts believe they will play an important part in shaping how Earth is in the future. One ...

Evolutionary roboticists have been testing radical methodologies that allow robots to 'mate' with one another autonomously. The process would work with two robots that are able to combine their code ...

Nature is full of examples of biology adapting to its surroundings. Technology may just be about to catch up From the bottom of the oceans to the skies above us, natural evolution has filled our ...

It has been the dream - and nightmare - of science fiction writers for decades. Now a team of engineers has conjured up a robot that can reproduce itself. It has been the dream - and nightmare - of ...

Designed by computers and built from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), the so-called xenobots took the scientific world by storm last year. Hailed as the first "living, ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The US scientists ...

A robot that can build copies of itself has been built by researchers in the US. The robot is a modular system, made up of a number of individual cubes that can swivel around a diagonal axis and ...

Living robots designed by computer and built from stem cells have started to reproduce in a breakthrough which could lead to self-replicating machines, scientists have said. In 2020, US researchers ...

In an article published in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, scientists have successfully replicated collective movements with spherical robots by drawing inspiration from the visual ...

It has been the dream - and nightmare - of science fiction writers for decades. Now a team of engineers has conjured up a robot that can reproduce itself. The robot can self-replicate in much the same ...

Scientists filmed the Pac-Man-like parents collecting the cells in their 'mouths' before building the 'offspring' from the loose cells Credit: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman Living robots ...