Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism
Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 20, 20205m 50s
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Show Notes
Under the watchful eye of a microscope, busy little blobs scoot around in a field of liquid—moving forward, turning around, sometimes spinning in circles. Drop cellular debris onto the plain and the blobs will herd them into piles. Flick any blob onto its back and it’ll lie there like a flipped-over turtle.
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