Neither a robot nor an animal, xenobots use living cells to create a programmable machine that could one day clean up toxic waste. A merging of organism and machine is not a new idea, with the ‘cyborg ...

For many years now, researchers worldwide have tried to determine what happens when life as we know it ceases. Scientists have created a new organism called xenobots for the first time. This ‘living ...

An anthrobot is shown, depth colored, with a corona of cilia that provides locomotion for the bot. Xenobots—a new classification of robots built from biological cells—evolved from theory to reality in ...