Science
Self-healing “Xenobots” mean a future with living machines – Inverse
Scientists pair machine learning with developmental biology to create self-assembling cellular bots.
One hundred years ago
, it was easy to tell when something was a machine. Machines were hard and clanky, metallic, and pretty heavy, as developmental biologist Michael Levin tells Inverse.
But lately, its become clear to Levin and his collaborator Joshua Bongard, a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont, that our definitions of machine and living organism are about to get really, really murky.
In January of 2020, the two first made headlines after announcing their team had successfully…
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