8 Dec 2021

'Xenobots' the first ever living robots - study

From Morning Report, 8:42 am on 8 December 2021

A group of US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, have found the tiny robots can now reproduce and generate offspring.

They could be used in the future for environmental cleanups or in medical interventions.

They look like little pac-men. Study lead author Josh Bongard is a robotics expert at the University of Vermont.

He spoke to Corin Dann.