Remember when the jab was coming out and folks were concerned there were..."things"...being injected into the blood stream and the idea was mocked and ridiculed? Well, for the past few years it looks like scientists have been working on, "'living machines'" that can be programmed to accomplish certain tasks".
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...st-year-now-they-can-now-reproduce-180979150/
More recent article:
“We transformed the cells into something new that they weren’t before — the first robot built entirely out of cells,” Blackiston says. “From there, the idea just exploded.” In January 2020, they shared their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Since then, the group has refined its methods. In March 2021, they showed how to build entire swarms of xenobots. They also added in cells that grow tiny hairs, called cilia, that help the bots swim in a liquid. And in November, they reported results showing the xenobots could replicate. In the future, Blackiston says, his group wants to build bots out of other types of cells — including human ones, maybe.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/xenobots-biohybrids-living-robots-cell-machine
Not such a crazy idea anymore, eh? If bots in the shots hasn't happened already, it sounds as if it's something that can be implemented sooner than we imagine!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...st-year-now-they-can-now-reproduce-180979150/
More recent article:
“We transformed the cells into something new that they weren’t before — the first robot built entirely out of cells,” Blackiston says. “From there, the idea just exploded.” In January 2020, they shared their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Since then, the group has refined its methods. In March 2021, they showed how to build entire swarms of xenobots. They also added in cells that grow tiny hairs, called cilia, that help the bots swim in a liquid. And in November, they reported results showing the xenobots could replicate. In the future, Blackiston says, his group wants to build bots out of other types of cells — including human ones, maybe.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/xenobots-biohybrids-living-robots-cell-machine
Not such a crazy idea anymore, eh? If bots in the shots hasn't happened already, it sounds as if it's something that can be implemented sooner than we imagine!
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