Ingenieure erschaffen „Neurobots“: winzige, frei schwimmende Ansammlungen lebender Zellen, die sich zu selbstgesteuerten Systemen organisieren, komplett mit Neuronen, die sich selbst in Funktionsschaltkreisen vernetzen
https://spectrum.ieee.org/neurobot-living-robot-nervous-system
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Peer-reviewed article: [https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202508967](https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202508967)
You know, we probably just shouldn’t.
I am begging engineers to watch any movie ever.
These are manufactured biological bots. They are about 250 micrometers in diameter and being studied for how they behave. Basically, they made them and are now seeing what they do. It’s a nice benchmark to our scifi dreams of nanobots.
Finally, a follow up to the Xenobots! I was wondering what the next step in their research was after the self-assembling reproduction, and I guess it was to grow neurons inside them too 😮
Really hope this leads to some emergent complex behaviour in the future 🙂
Yay a real science post, not pop psych or pop gender studies.
This is awesome, I’m guessing the idea would be to eventually use these bots for super targeted medicine delivery or super target cancer removal?
Does this not cure alzhimers?
Makes me think the [gray goo scenario](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo?wprov=sfti1#Definition) isn’t so far-fetched.
> Gray goo (also spelled as grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth while building many more of themselves