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- Title of paper below: "A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms"
Articles:
Paper:
Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard,
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
(PNAS, January 13, 2020)
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/07/1910837117
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Very interesting and extremely fascinating to me, and when I heard of it, I immediately thought I should post about it on PF.
- Team Builds the First Living Robots (The University of Vermont)
- Meet the xenobot: world's first living, self-healing robots created from frog stem cells (CNN)
Articles said:"These are novel living machines," says Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont who co-led the new research. "They're neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism."
Paper:
Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard,
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
(PNAS, January 13, 2020)
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/07/1910837117
Some pictures: