These Researchers Used Artificial Intelligence to Design an 'Animal Robot' That Has Never Existed

Xenobots are living, swimming, self-powered robots less than a millimeter across, evolved by artificial intelligence and built out of frog stem cells—and they could open new medical frontiers.

[kodiakbear]

Fascinating. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

[ThankYouESM]

The religious seem to be absolutely afraid of every scientific progress whereas "Playing God*" can refer to all medicines... cures... pain suppressants... and so forth.

[HArryvajonas]

This is amazing and at the same time, the potential for harm, is staggering. Consider a device that releases a billion of these critters into a population center, they subsist on organic matter, and they make no distinction between the types of organic matter they consider food; or maybe they are programmed to seek specific types of organic matter. I am certain the military wouldn't have an interest in this tech. Anyway, everyone have a nice day!

[petevenuti]

Doug,
do you realize your working toward building your own replacement??‽

[Echo_]

There have been such a small amount of videos done about them lately, im dying to know what progress they have made

[mavaction]

The happy music lets you know everything will be perfectly fine!

[jofbeats]

Question "what should we tell all the scientists making stuff like this to take limits and regulations on xenobots in years to come so they won't a deadly cell threat to other living cells, but become the grey goo scenario we're all secretly terrified about"? I even in both xenobots and/or nanobots the possibility is massively low or even to the point is impossible, but it's really something even they need to think about so things go out of hand or even just become deadly in the future

[spookymulder]

I wonder what would happen if you give one of the frogs a dose of xenobots. If they can reproduce inside the frog with the frog cells it could be a real danger.
Imagine this thing mutating to consume other cells...

[pickaxingoneuropa]

In his magnum opus, 'Rendezvous with Rama', Arthur C Clarke once wrote of 'biots'- biological robots. It's great to see where we universal constructors are heading. This is beautiful and exciting- and when in love, you just want to tell the world (to paraphrase Carl Sagan). Science is awesome!

[OZtwo]

What is interesting is that they say this will not be an issue yet we just saw the cells self evolving in real life to something we have no idea what it would be. Even trying to kill it and it will heal itself is mind blowing.

[markb.]

Xenobot + A.I. + Biomechanics in soft robotics + Quantum Application + Synthetic Biology with applied Biomimetics is a total equation for human extinction :) ! Isn't amazing ?

[HerleifJarle]

As a scientist, what would be the application of generative AIs like Bluewillow in your field of study?

[AparnaModou]

I wonder if they used an image generator like Bluewillow to visualize the design. Would have been super helpful.

[ardidsonriente]

Excellent video! Congratulations for a work well done.

[denisemiller]

I believe in future scientists will be designing life forms to do what we have machines do now, or even a symbiosis of life integrated with machines. For instance we can have plants purify water rather than a machine, can build the perfect plant to do so.

[othyjoel]

I have never thought humans have reached the points of creating life

[braudhadoch]

A nightmare!!! When this tech is weaponized, what then?

[diegolovell]

had an idea of using bio tech to display information on a screen on wrist and be powered from the body

[ctoxyz]

7:14 as do galaxies, stars, planets - pattern exists up + down human understanding

[cmaslan]

I been fallowing this guy's works...
... Anyone wondering, these things are not genetically engineered nor sliced, diced and mutated into this...
... it's a new mechanism this guy(him) been researching called bioelectric intercelular networks, wich is a newly discovered epigenetic mechanism with the pourpouse of organising cells into morphological biology.