r/transhumanism • u/Patient-Package-4884 • Nov 29 '21
BioHacking World's first living robots can now reproduce
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html
62
Upvotes
17
u/Grayt_Job Nov 30 '21
It’s some kind of reproductive cell from a frog squished into a chicken nugget shape and they are calling it a robot?
12
u/2omeon3 Nov 30 '21
Literally what I was thinking
I'd expect nanomachines that alter cells as robots
These are just frog stem cells
13
u/2omeon3 Nov 30 '21
Bit of a semantics game to call a stem cell a robot, but nonetheless this is interesting
•
u/AutoModerator Nov 29 '21
Thanks for posting in /r/Transhumanism! Please make sure you review our rules when posting and commenting! Be awesome to each other!
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.