An AI created robots out of living tissue. Then they started to reproduce…. Meet the xenobots

 

Scientists are using living materials to make machines that some would regard as alive… and now they’ve started to replicate.

 

When we think of a robot, what usually comes to mind is some kind of synthetic servant – a metal-clad machine controlled by electronics. While it might do chores for us and perhaps even talk to us in ways that seem intelligent, we wouldn’t regard it as alive.