BOSTON - Xenobots, also known as the world’s first living robots, have the capability to reproduce, according to a recent study from the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University.

I have always been very interested in building objects and creating robots, but who isn't? Robots are the coolest. I've always thought they were great and wanted to work on them, but it took me a ...

Living, moving, self-replicating robots funded by the U.S. military. No, that's not a sci-fi thriller coming to a theater near you. It's "xenobots," microscopic computer-designed robots made entirely ...

Tiny “living machines” made of frog cells can replicate themselves, making copies that can then go on to do the same. This newly described form of renewal offers insights into how to design biological ...

When University of Vermont researcher Josh Bongard and his colleagues in Massachusetts began working on a project to build robots using artificial intelligence and frog stem cells, one of their first ...

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TORONTO, Ontario (CNN) — Scientists in the United States have created robots that can spontaneously self-replicate in what they’re calling a “profound” discovery. The study, published on Monday in ...

American scientists who created the Xenobots, the first living robots, from frog embryo cells reported Monday that they can now reproduce. They explained the process they observed, the robots are able ...