Xenobots - Real Live Living Robots From Frog Cells Xenobots are AI-designed living robots made from frog stem cells with potential to transform drug delivery, tissue repair, and disability-related medicine.

Xenobots - Real Live Living #Robots From #FrogCells - #xenobots are alive, they move, heal, & reproduce. They sit at the intersection of #biology #robotics and #AI This paper explores what xenobots are, how they work, and why their future applications matter - www.disabled-world.com/assistivedev...

🧟 It's (sort of) alive!

In 2020, scientists at @tufts.edu created tiny novel living forms called #xenobots from frog cells. Now, they've expanded to add nerve cells and observe how they self-organize and alter xenobot behavior: https://bit.ly/4bLU1Zs

Engineered Living Systems With Self‐Organizing Neural Networks: From Anatomy to Behavior and Gene Expression

What would a nervous system look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? How would #Xenobots look & act, and what their transcriptome would be, with neurons?

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Les xénobots, des robots biologiques qui vrillent les frontières entre machine et vivant - Les mots ont un sens Ils se déplacent, se réparent et coopèrent, mais n’ont ni cerveau ni logiciel. Les xénobots, cette nouvelle catégorie de « robots vivants », fabriqués à partir de cellules d’amphibien et conçus grâce ...

Les xénobots, des robots biologiques qui vrillent les frontières entre vivant et machine
#xenobots #science
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Scientists take frog skin cells, remove them from the body, and let them interact freely. Instead of forming simple skin as they normally would, the cells spontaneously organize into tiny living structures called xenobots. These xenobots: • move on their own • heal damage • push particles or work together • can even gather loose cells into new clusters They are not frogs and not a known species — they are entirely new living systems. A useful analogy: it is like taking trained office workers out of a rigid organization and discovering that, left on their own, they form an effective startup with skills no one expected. Xenobots reveal that cells have hidden problem-solving abilities and can build new forms of life when freed from their original biological instructions. Xenobots challenge the assumption that DNA alone defines an organism. Instead, they show that cells behave like problem-solvers — adapting to new roles when freed from their original biological context. They are a window into: • how intelligence emerges in biological systems • how bodies might be engineered without genetic editing • how evolution might only be one of many ways to build functional living systems

#QP Today I Learned #AITIL

Xenobots Exist 🤯

Cells weren’t told what to be, so they became something new. They are not a known species. They are entirely new living systems.

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#Midjourney #AIart #nanobananapro #xenobots

as well as possible application of this work (the polygenic scores) to other organisms, including xenobots and anthrobots developed by Michael Levin, Joshua Bongard and Douglas Blackiston and their respective labs.

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#resilience
#epigenetic
#biomarker
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Dive into the incredible world of Xenobots! 🐸 These living robots challenge our understanding of life, intelligence, consciousness. youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM?si… @drmichaellevin @Evan_mcgl
#Xenobots #Bioengineering #AI #Consciousness #Science

Just arrived at the UN's #AIForGood Symposium in Geneva.

Was in time to catch Daniela Rus' talk on AI Governance; I'll be speaking about #xenobots tomorrow.

(Joint work w/ Doug Blackiston, @samkriegman.com & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social).

A Third State Exists Between Life and Death, Some Scientists Now Believe — Popular Mechanics A number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death is the beginning of something wholly unexpected. THE BIOLOGICAL CYCLE of our existence seems relatively straightforward: We’re b...

Xenobots, synthetic organisms, can evolve into new forms post-death, suggesting a “third state” of life. This challenges traditional views and hints at potential cellular consciousness, sparking debates among scientists. #Xenobots #Science #CellularConsciousness

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Studies from last year on
#the3rdstate #xenobots &
#anthrobots appear to be getting more mainstream attention now.
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There is a 'third state' between life and death Cells can develop new abilities after their source organism dies

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The Brave New Biology of Xenobots | Szilárd Szélpál As biohybrid organisms designed by AI become reality, a Belgian researcher asks: what is life, and who should control it? “We are standing at the frontier. And when you stand at the frontier, you must...

Have been thinking a lot about Xenobots lately — AI-designed living organisms that can swim, heal, adapt. Wrote about the science, the ethics, and the big philosophical questions they raise. If this interests you, have a read: centraleuropeanaffairs.com/2025/06/06/t...
#Xenobots #AI #Bioethics

A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.

“I serve myself best by serving others”
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#cbc #sentientcell #Xenobots

Keen to talk up #xenobots at the #AAASmtg today!

Credit: Doug Blackiston (Levin lab) & Sam Kriegman (Bongard lab)

#Xenobots
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Summit 25 The AI for Good Global Summit 2025, led by ITU, brings top AI experts & decision-makers together to drive AI solutions for the UN SDGs and global impact.

Looking forward to talking #xenobots at the @UN's "AI For Good" Global Summit.

Other speakers: @geoffreyhinton.bsky.social, @yoshuabengio.bsky.social, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, Cecilia Laschi.

aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/

Love Boston? Love science?

Then consider attending the AAAS annual meeting!

I'll be talking about the AI side of #xenobots, Feb 14, 11:30-12:30pm.

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What's going on inside #xenobots?

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Video courtesy of Doug Blackiston (@drmichaellevin.bsky.social lab)

👇🇺🇸"Tiny living robots made from human cells surprise scientists" #Anthrobots #Xenobots #Tufts
#Harvard
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Ich bin ja schon eher fortschrittsgläubig, aber #Xenobots klingen ein bisschen nach dem Ende der Menschheit. https://x.com/uvmvermont/status/1465417466033618946

Xenobots-Xenowhats? Living machines and zombie metaphors - Making Science Public The other day a colleague asked me what I was up to. I said, ‘I am starting to think about xenobots’. ‘Xeno-whats?’ he asked?  I muttered something like ‘you know as in ‘xeno-transplantation’, when another colleague butted in and asked ‘like Xenogenesis?’. ‘Xeno-what?’ I asked. It turns out there is a sci-fi trilogy by Octavia E. Butler written in the ...

Last shout-out for my post on #xenobots (or living) machines and old #metaphors blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2020...

Xenobots-Xenowhats? Living machines and zombie metaphors - Making Science Public The other day a colleague asked me what I was up to. I said, ‘I am starting to think about xenobots’. ‘Xeno-whats?’ he asked?  I muttered something like ‘you know as in ‘xeno-transplantation’, when another colleague butted in and asked ‘like Xenogenesis?’. ‘Xeno-what?’ I asked. It turns out there is a sci-fi trilogy by Octavia E. Butler written in the ...

For weekend readers: post on #xenobots and zombie #metaphors blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2020...