by John Rubino
Dollar Collapse
Those dancing robots are definitely scary. But they’re big, so we might be able to see them coming, which gives us a fighting chance. But self-replicating microscopic bio-robots? Hard to know what we’ll be able to do about those things:
Living Robot That Can Self-Replicate Created In World First
(IFLS) – Researchers have created robots made of living cells that can not only complete tasks, but also reproduce – and they reproduce in a way that no other living creature does.
These Xenobots, named after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), are synthetic lifeforms first announced in 2020. They are made from a mixture of skin cells and heart muscle cells from the very early stages of frog embryos. However, despite their genome, they are not frogs.