In xenobots, the shape … dictates what a xenobot is going to do. It dictates whether it’s going to replicate, how it replicates [and] what it’s going to look like.

— Josh Bongard, A UVM Researcher Uses Artificial Intelligence and Frog Cells to Create Self-Replicating 'Xenobots' (2022)

Source: https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/a-uvm-researcher-uses-artificial-intelligence-and-frog-cells-to-create-self-replicating-xenobots-34653312/

From a January 2022 Seven Days article on self-replicating xenobots.

Topics: biology