Living Robots: Autotoads vs Deceptifrogs

Episode 3

Shawn and Dan discuss Kriegman et al. 2020, and their recent paper aimed at creating biological robots from the stem cells of the African clawed frog!

IT’S ALIVE! No really, these are actual living organic robots! Sound like the premise of an insane Sci-Fi novel? Well, it basically is! Will these robots made of frog stem cells help further medical advances such as cancer treatments or will they hunt us all down like the T-1000?

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Source:
Kriegman, Sam, et al. "A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.4 (2020): 1853-1859.

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