Posted on 12/22/2020 9:56:53 AM PST by BenLurkin
The African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, typically lives in the streams and ponds of sub-Saharan Africa, scavenging for food that it rips apart with its feet. In January, researchers at the University of Vermont and Tufts University published a report that gave the amphibian a different lot in life. They harvested its embryonic skin and heart cells and reassembled the living matter into robotic devices — transforming Xenopus into xenobot.
They’re designed on a supercomputer...
There are no electronics involved. Behaviors are programmed entirely through the structural arrangement of the pulsating heart cells held in a matrix of rigid skin cells.
Although xenobots can’t yet do much more than crawl or swim, the researchers see great potential for them to aid in fields like medicine and environmental remediation. In the future, xenobots could be engineered to deliver drugs through the human body or to gather up microplastics in oceans, politely biodegrading when the job is done.
(Excerpt) Read more at discovermagazine.com ...
No good will come of this.
A French robot?
Might not be so bad. So maybe your next order of frogs legs will have titanium bones.
I seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well.....................
And they will vote Democrat !
I’ve seen this movie. It doesn’t end well.
No, it doesn’t. Does this mean the first experiments with the time displacement equipment will be conducted on frogs?
Pepe approves of weaponized smartfrogs.
Thanks for that.
You just proved the fact that there is a designer who created everything.....
The very worst aspects of “Teminator” combined with the horrors of “ Species” and a dash of “The Wind and the Wuthering” (arrogant Mr Toad)
I think that there was a movie about this...
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