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Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS

Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine

Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died.
Ready to march. Michael Rubenstein, Harvard University

Thousand-robot swarm assembles itself into shapes

There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robots…

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