[robits, science] Xenobots: First Living Robots Created from Stem Cells
...THEY'RE ALIIIIiiiiIIIIVE

Look at these squishy lil bio-robots!

They're built from pieces of frog skin and heart stem cell cultures!

They can move around, survive without nourishment in aqueous environments for potentially weeks, and even heal themselves!

"It may all sound like something from a dystopian sci-fi movie" that's because nobody can think in non-dystopian terms anymore, it's not the robits it's our current broken system, these things could be a huge breakthrough for so many things if the world lets them be developed that way

/snarls at the partial military funding

THEY'RE SO CUTE AND HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL.

!!

Hello tiny friends I want a whole tank of you!!

That is SO COOL

in a word: MICROSURGERY

in two: MEDICAL
DEVICES

we already live in dystopia, dahling, that shit is uninspired

the solar future we want has always been ours to pry loose with both hands. (More importantly, since many of us are too strapped to do it, to try and lift the kids AS HIGH AS WE CAN as best we may.)

to clarify, because tone is difficult on the internet: I'M WITH YOU SO MANY PERCENT and glad to meet our tiny planktonic mechanical overlords

^thisthisthisthisTHIIIIIS

"this could be really good"
SOUNDS DYSTOPIAN TO ME!!!!!!!!11111

this is what comes of 20 years of people only writing grimdark

y e p

Took the words right out from under my fingers

/high-fives you both

Scientists 3D-print a replica of a mummified Egyptian priest's voicebox. It said 'meh'.