Researchers used the Deep Green supercomputer cluster and an evolutionary algorithm to design new life-forms that could achieve an assigned task. Then they built them by combining together different biological tissues from Xenopus laevis embryos, hence the name Xenobots. Credit: A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard PNAS, DOI:
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