In a potential breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists have created the first-ever living robots that can reproduce. The millimetre-sized living machines, called Xenobots 3.0, are neither ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Scientists behind the world's first living robots have learned that these xenobots can reproduce and generate offspring, in a discovery that they say could help to explain the origin of life on Earth.

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 ...