Title:
Not Bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
Authors:
Simon Coghlan & Kobi Leins
Published:
The Conversation, 19 January 2020
From the article:
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world's first "living bot".
This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their recipe for making a new lifeform called xenobots from stem cells. The term "xeno" comes from the from cells (Xenopus laevis) used to make them.
To read this article:
https://theconversation.com/not-bot-not-beast-scientists-create-first-ever-living-programmable-organism-129980