Science Scientists Create Living Blob Robots that Can Self-Heal and Reproduce Using Frog DNA

[Husky_Khan]

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Frog DNA? Where have I heard that before?

And self healing? The ability to reproduce? Blob forms?

Ah well, I'm sure something called a "Xenobot" could never turn out bad for the future of our meatbag civilization.

Experiments showed that the organisms can swim out into their dish, find other single cells and assemble “baby” xenobots.

A few days later, the babies become new xenobots that look and move just like the initial creation.

The new xenobots can then go out and self-replicate again, according to the scientists.

Xenobots, which are less than a millimeter wide, are designed on a computer and hand-assembled.

The scientists said they were stunned to learn the tiny blobs could spontaneously replicate.

World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

Details about the robots, created using the heart and skin stem cells from the African clawed frog, were unveiled last year after experiments showed they could move and self-heal.

nypost.com

 

[Jormungandr]

...Fucking hell.

Are these people mentally-deficient? Self-replicating machines?

This is a sci-fi horror trope that writes itself.

Who wants a planetary crust covered in paperclips or something else as innocuous? smh

 

[Flintsteel]

Stop panicking. More detailed break downs show not only are the articles massively misleading, the study itself as stretching more than a little.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Stop panicking. More detailed break downs show not only are the articles massively misleading, the study itself as stretching more than a little.

Ah the cover up begins... Just like that incident in Arborville thirty years ago.

 

[Laskar]

Stop panicking. More detailed break downs show not only are the articles massively misleading, the study itself as stretching more than a little.

That's what I figured. Either this was really scary, or really blown out of proportion.
Gotta admit, I'm very happy it's the latter.

 

[Jormungandr]

Thank fuck for that. The last thing we need in 2022 is a self-replicating grey goo determined to turn us all into paper clips!

 

[Culsu]

You want grey goo? Because that's how you get grey goo.

More relevantly, glad it's not grey goo.

 

[Doomsought]

We already have a grey goo, it is called life. Your immune system will be a perfectly viable threat to any type of nanomachines.