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Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Escalze(m): 2:15pm On Jan 16, 2020
ItooWorWor:

Ancient gini? Abeg no kill me with laugh grin grin grin grin

grin
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by OnyesomJ(m): 2:18pm On Jan 16, 2020
Hi I’ve nothing to say

What if the Xenophobic xenobot refuses to come out from the human body nko!!?
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by BankyGee(m): 2:19pm On Jan 16, 2020
Can we call it a cyborg?
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by ItooWorWor(m): 2:20pm On Jan 16, 2020
One day white men will create a vaccine that will turn the world to zombies then walking dead will be reality grin grin
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Nobody: 2:22pm On Jan 16, 2020
maynation:

I fear God.

You hate what you fear.
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by onpoint69(m): 2:23pm On Jan 16, 2020
maynation:
After God fear science.
you mean Oyinbo science
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by DoubleEngine007: 2:25pm On Jan 16, 2020
mercidove:

Are you alright
You dey mind am?? Her mates dey make discoveries technologically,she dey there dey reason with her Toto..


Make person help her put on that switch biko..

Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by nograv: 2:26pm On Jan 16, 2020
RapistOnBail:
Europeans go to school to acquire skills and knowledge.

Africans dey go school to carry shoulder
undecided

You sharap....

Speak for yourself not a whole continent mumu
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Apollux(m): 2:26pm On Jan 16, 2020
SultanOfAbia:
Russians have been experimenting and creating Creatures called Homunculus Using Chicken Eggs
1.Put your Sperm inside Injection Syringe
2.Insert the injection into a raw egg
3.Use plaster to cover the tiny opening in
the egg caused by injection
4.Store the Egg for 2 weeks or more
Monitor the hatching of the egg
5.Congratulations..
You have created a Homunculus

https://www.yourtango.com/2016293743/man-injects-sperm-chicken-egg-pulls-out-creature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNLPXzlz6-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbTMN7bQ2Tg

Sorry but this guy is a fraud. It has been shown that the videos he made were photoshopped. Search further on YouTube, you will see some videos showing/proving how he photoshopped the whole thing.
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by kingsvictor2: 2:28pm On Jan 16, 2020
maynation:
After God fear science.
there's no god. science rules
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Bornboy4: 2:30pm On Jan 16, 2020
Good talk.
We are more civilised now than to begin another trade on tribal sentiments.
All the same, free weekend draws are available at the link on my signature below if you care. You'll thank me later!
Judithjovial:
Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba and other ethnicity in our beloved Naija it's time to put the hating and tribalism aside, our generation needs to grow further away from such mentality instilled in us through colonialism and dirty politics. If we continue as we have all these years those politicians will never be held accountable. We're practicing Democracy and have failed woefully as learned folks to know that true power belongs to all of us not the few thief's claiming to run our nation...
it's time we stand as ONE or get squashed like scattered ants
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by googi: 2:31pm On Jan 16, 2020
I will be surprised if some of these experiments is not going on in our morphology or microbiology labs.

Some of you may remember that in those days with functional chemistry labs in high school, we made aspirin from scratch.

Germination from ordinary soil producing plants and microbs are wonders. Children still do these and call it wonders.

Human abilities are limitless. We just have to call them Experiments instead of juju.

Africans have the same brain but our orientation has been limited to money.

Just a reminder, Teachers used to be the best anyone could be.

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Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by research56: 2:32pm On Jan 16, 2020
Please this post writer should remove the term " self healing" because there is nothing like self healing here. Anyway, thanks for sharing this post.
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by 9jagobetta: 2:42pm On Jan 16, 2020
Hmmmmm this is bigger than most people can phantom, decipher, it will help healing mostly in viral disease cure and more
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by dazzlingd(m): 2:44pm On Jan 16, 2020
Scientists rule the world while pastors and imams are buried in books and fairy tales written by ancient cave men...

Science takes us to the future, a miracle of an amputated limb growing back will only happen in the lab

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Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Amanofwisdom: 2:45pm On Jan 16, 2020
maynation:
After God fear science.

Science is greater than god
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by sharpwriter(m): 3:05pm On Jan 16, 2020
PotatoSalad:
Anything you can dream of is possible.
Everything you see in sci fi movies is possible. It'll only take time.
Watch one mad scientist that'll reverse engineer this and use it to create a zombie transmitting bot grin

Yeah... I believe everything in Sci fiction movies is possible except one that I'm skeptical about, and that is Time Travel (whether back in time or into the future).
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Liposure: 3:18pm On Jan 16, 2020
Antman in real life
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by rachels: 4:15pm On Jan 16, 2020
RapistOnBail:
Europeans go to school to acquire skills and knowledge.

Africans dey go school to carry shoulder
undecided
exactly ,common this small office where i dey carrying shoulder up and down don tired me jor
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by czar2k16(m): 4:27pm On Jan 16, 2020
gcey2k:
(CNN)Scientists have created the world's first living, self-healing robots using stem cells from frogs.

Named xenobots after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which they take their stem cells, the machines are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide -- small enough to travel inside human bodies. They can walk and swim, survive for weeks without food, and work together in groups.

These are "entirely new life-forms," said the University of Vermont, which conducted the research with Tufts University's Allen Discovery Center.

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the ability to develop into different cell types. The researchers scraped living stem cells from frog embryos, and left them to incubate. Then, the cells were cut and reshaped into specific "body forms" designed by a supercomputer -- forms "never seen in nature," according to a news release from the University of Vermont

The cells then began to work on their own -- skin cells bonded to form structure, while pulsing heart muscle cells allowed the robot to move on its own. Xenobots even have self-healing capabilities; when the scientists sliced into one robot, it healed by itself and kept moving.

"These are novel living machines," said Joshua Bongard, one of the lead researchers at the University of Vermont, in the news release. "They're neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism."

Xenobots don't look like traditional robots -- they have no shiny gears or robotic arms. Instead, they look more like a tiny blob of moving pink flesh. The researchers say this is deliberate -- this "biological machine" can achieve things typical robots of steel and plastic cannot.

Traditional robots "degrade over time and can produce harmful ecological and health side effects," researchers said in the study, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. As biological machines, xenobots are more environmentally friendly and safer for human health, the study said.

The xenobots could potentially be used toward a host of tasks, according to the study, which was partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a federal agency that oversees the development of technology for military use.

Xenobots could be used to clean up radioactive waste, collect microplastics in the oceans, carry medicine inside human bodies, or even travel into our arteries to scrape out plaque. The xenobots can survive in aqueous environments without additional nutrients for days or weeks -- making them suitable for internal drug delivery.

Aside from these immediate practical tasks, the xenobots could also help researchers to learn more about cell biology -- opening the doors to future advancement in human health and longevity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQRBCCjaYGE

"If we could make 3D biological form on demand, we could repair birth defects, reprogram tumors into normal tissue, regenerate after traumatic injury or degenerative disease, and defeat aging," said the researchers' website. This research could have "a massive impact on regenerative medicine (building body parts and inducing regeneration.)"

It may all sound like something from a dystopian sci-fi movie, but the researchers say there is no need for alarm.

The organisms come pre-loaded with their own food source of lipid and protein deposits, allowing them to live for a little over a week -- but they can't reproduce or evolve. However, their lifespan can increase to several weeks in nutrient-rich environments.

And although the supercomputer -- a powerful piece of artificial intelligence -- plays a big role in building these robots, it's "unlikely" that the AI could have evil intentions.

"At the moment though it is difficult to see how an AI could create harmful organisms any easier than a talented biologist with bad intentions could," said the researchers' website.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/us/living-robot-stem-cells-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

Ok Nahw!!!! Skynet loading angry
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Berliny: 4:47pm On Jan 16, 2020
Amazing indeed
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by WeRblessed(f): 4:49pm On Jan 16, 2020
RapistOnBail:
Europeans go to school to acquire skills and knowledge.

Africans dey go school to carry shoulder
undecided



Africans de go school to blow grammar and to also prove to their neighbors that they are graduates.

Most Nigerian female graduates are married sitting in their husbands houses doing nothing with their degrees.

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Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by pacespot(m): 4:52pm On Jan 16, 2020
Nice.

According to geneticists, human genes need a makeup to develop capability to live in other planets. That is the kind of humans that will live in Mars, Moon and other planets would be a bit different from those currently living on earth. Due to radiation and other environmental conditions, the genetical composition of humans living in each planet will be different, because they have been genetically coded to withstand such planet.
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Hhenryy: 5:00pm On Jan 16, 2020
With all this daily ground breaking and mind boggling innovations, they are yet to find a cure to the dreaded HIV / AIDS . It just shows how mysterious the virus is.
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Supersymetry: 5:03pm On Jan 16, 2020
sharpwriter:


Yeah... I believe everything in Sci fiction movies is possible except one that I'm skeptical about, and that is Time Travel (whether back in time or into the future).
Go and learn general relativity and quantum mechanics, infact the past can be changed.
Reality is an illusion.
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by deriod(m): 5:09pm On Jan 16, 2020
OnyesomJ:
Hi I’ve nothing to say

What if the Xenophobic xenobot refuses to come out from the human body nko!!?
typical African man smh
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by OnyesomJ(m): 5:16pm On Jan 16, 2020
deriod:

typical African man smh
Mtcheew!!

Typical Black man ��
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by Supersymetry: 5:20pm On Jan 16, 2020
Hhenryy:
With all this daily ground breaking and mind boggling innovations, they are yet to find a cure to the dreaded HIV / AIDS . It just shows how mysterious the virus is.
Sceptics,religious, ignorant, selfish and mentally rigid people don't want open minded scientists to use technics like genetherapy or other genetic modification... like crispr, RNAi etc
Re: Meet The Xenobot: World's First Living, Self-healing Robots by PotatoSalad(m): 5:42pm On Jan 16, 2020
sharpwriter:


Yeah... I believe everything in Sci fiction movies is possible except one that I'm skeptical about, and that is Time Travel (whether back in time or into the future).
Don't be surprised.
In 1950, a 6mb hard drive was the size of a large hall.
Today, we have 1TB sd cards, smaller than a coin.

Who would have thought that was going to be possible?

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