stackyFACTSBiological robots sound like a bad sci-fi trope, but scientists actually built them from the ground up.
Biological robots sound like a bad sci-fi trope, but scientists actually built them from the ground up. By scraping skin and heart stem cells from African clawed frog embryos, researchers created Xenobots—entirely novel, programmable organisms. These living nanobots can spontaneously heal themselves, work together to push microscopic payloads, and even replicate by gathering loose cells into new pac-man-shaped swarms.
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