XENOBOTS : FIRST LIVING ROBOTS

    If you love bringing Artificial Intelligence(AI) and biology together, you'll definitely want to know about Xenobots-world's first 'Living Robots'. These living bots are made of skin cells, heart cells, stem cells harvested from frog embryos (Africans clawed frog) and was developed by University of Vermont and Tufts University. These robots are about 1 millimeter and are fully biodegradable and when they're done with their job after seven days, they will turn to dead skin cells.

       They are fueled by nutrients and electricity. ''They're neither a traditional robot nor a class of certifact : a living, programmable organism", says Joshua Bongard (a computer Scientist and Robotics expert, University of Vermont).
       It's applications can be expected in radioactive waste cleaning, collecting microplastics in oceans, carry medicine into human bodies. These living Robots have just started the games in the Industry and it will level up further in years to come.

- Khatheeja Lubna
  2nd Bsc FND