[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

[Evie]

Very interesting! Bob,

It's very interesting because it could be used in many applications
(medical, and even environmental, etc.).
How did the scientists actually do it in the lab?.....The process from the
stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) to xenobots, which
are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide.
We all know how AI is installed in computer robots, but how "bio artificial
intelligence" is installed in frog's stem cells?🤔
The article explained "The supercomputer came up with a C-shape that
resembled Pac-Man, the 1980s video game." and "The shape is, in essence,
the program. The shape influences how the xenobots behave to amplify this
incredibly surprising process." 🤔🤔🤔 And I am totally lost reading
the Research
Article, Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms,
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2112672118!🙄🙄🙄

Are prion proteins functioning similar to stem cells? Dick Wagner's talk on
the CRISPR page has terms I am not familiar with.

Do I ask too many questions? Maybe you could talk about this in one of the
meetings as you have a biochemistry background.👍
Evie

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 1:26 AM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I saw that. I chafe at calling this a "life form", but they have to bait
> those clicks somehow.
>
> I refer you to Dick Wagner's talk on CRISPR, wherein he chafes at calling
> a bacterial phage a virus. Viri are only endemic to eukariotic cells (with
> a true nucleus and certain chromosome characteristics).
>
> Similarly, viri have been called life forms by some (not all) scientists,
> though they do not fulfill all the criteria of a complete life form. Then
> there are prion proteins, which are self-replicating but lack other
> characteristics even viri possess. (Mad Cow Disease is caused by a prion,
> as is Chronic Wasting Disease in wild deer. And Scrapies in sheep.)
>
> https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-8-493#:~:text=Animal%20prion%20diseases%20include%20scrapie,and%20spongiform%20encephalopathy%20of%20primates.
>
> (I minored in biochemistry in college, and did a tiny bit of grad school
> before dropping out.)
>
> So now we have synthetic "life" forms. The lines blur even further.
>
> The machines are taking over, and we will be serving them before long.
>
> -- Bob Primak
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 08:07:10 PM EST, Evie <et8686 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Very interesting......
>
> World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html
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