Biological robots made from frog cells can replicate by smooshing loose cells into new robots—a reproduction method not seen in any other organism. Chloe Tenn is a graduate of North Carolina State ...

The team next wanted to see if they could make a xenobot swim. To do this, the researchers employed another type of motor: cilia. 4 Instead of layering different tissues, Blackiston used whole ...

An AI-designed, Pac-Man-shaped “parent” organism (in red) beside stem cells that have been compressed into a ball—the “offspring” (green). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

At Tufts University in Boston, a new type of biological robot has been created: the xenobot. The size of a grain of sand, xenobots are grown from frog heart and skin cells, and combined with the ...