Tiny Robots Able to Reproduce

[King Rudi]

This opens so many avenues for medical applications....however; I know enough humans and have seen enough movies, to where this scares the shit out of me.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ce/8801610002/

[infinitekidM2C]

Shit i need to stop banging robots!

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by infinitekidM2C

Shit i need to stop banging robots!

Indeed. Soon the robots will be banging you.

I'm troubled by this. Tiny robots, that can live for weeks without food, regenerate themselves and replicate. We are either about to see medical advancements unlike any generation before us or we are about to become proper f*cked.

[infinitekidM2C]

Originally Posted by King Rudi

Indeed. Soon the robots will be banging you.

I'm troubled by this. Tiny robots, that can live for weeks without food, regenerate themselves and replicate.

Feckers.

[King Rudi]

I'm just glad they used African clawed frog embryos, rather than embryos from the Bufo Alvarius which produces 5-MeO-DMT. It'd be a tiny robot rave! Untz, untz, untz, untz.....

[nyalpine90]

SKYNET?

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by nyalpine90

SKYNET?

Worse....we're gonna need Will Smith.

[Minacious]

The direction this Earth is headed, I welcome our new robot overlords.

[Chihuahua]

Come with me if you want to live.

[Tommy-G]

Can we send them to the moon to build our new world?

[BMWGUYinCO]

LOL, the new Spiderman ride in Disneyland is based on this exact premise....

[Alfisti]

[Maynard]

Truly the scariest thing I've read in some time. And I'm struck by this attempt at comforting us:

"While this may sound like the beginning of the plot to a "Terminator" movie, Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and study co-author, says there is no worry that this may lead to the end of human civilization. The xenobots are small, only live in a laboratory and can be easily killed."

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with some lab-created micro-beings that can multiply.......

[Bunnny]

I second that this is also terrifying as fuck!

I remember reading this article years ago where three AI programs created their own language to talk to each other in secret, during the experiment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...nguage/530436/

This is just an educated guess, but I don't think this is a wise idea just yet. Or that it should even be a thing.

[NEfan508]

All we need is some nerd @ MIT or Stanford to push the boundaries on Quantum computing then suddenly we have a self aware system


I hope we get a friendly T-800 sent back

[infinitekidM2C]

The robots will be cool until they realize we're standing in their way and hurting the planet. Then they'll "help us" by killing us all

[2000cs]

So the first thing these robots do is invent oral sex?

[F32Fleet]

Originally Posted by King Rudi

I'm just glad they used African clawed frog embryos, rather than embryos from the Bufo Alvarius which produces 5-MeO-DMT. It'd be a tiny robot rave! Untz, untz, untz, untz.....

ROFL.

[Kilabyte]

Originally Posted by Maynard

Truly the scariest thing I've read in some time. And I'm struck by this attempt at comforting us:

"While this may sound like the beginning of the plot to a "Terminator" movie, Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and study co-author, says there is no worry that this may lead to the end of human civilization. The xenobots are small, only live in a laboratory and can be easily killed."

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with some lab-created micro-beings that can multiply.......

*Bill Gates rubbing his hands together*

[///d]

Originally Posted by Maynard

Truly the scariest thing I've read in some time. And I'm struck by this attempt at comforting us:

"While this may sound like the beginning of the plot to a "Terminator" movie, Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and study co-author, says there is no worry that this may lead to the end of human civilization. The xenobots are small, only live in a laboratory and can be easily killed."

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with some lab-created micro-beings that can multiply.......

Thats probably exactly what they said about COVID........


What I was most curious about is how they are considered a robot? A robot can be defined as a mechanical device that is capable of performing a variety of tasks on command or according to instructions programmed in advance. So then I found this;

Whether xenobots are robots, organisms, or something else entirely remains a subject of debate among scientists, with one of the researchers saying: "They're neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism." Xenobots built to date have been less than a 1 millimeter (0.039 inches) wide and composed of just two things: skin cells and heart muscle cells. The skin cells provide rigid support and the heart cells act as small motors, contracting and expanding in volume to propel the xenobot forward.

This to me sounds more like genetic or physical mutation or something like that. I'm more worried about the human centipede than I am the terminator

[Lucky John]

Originally Posted by Maynard

Truly the scariest thing I've read in some time. And I'm struck by this attempt at comforting us:

"While this may sound like the beginning of the plot to a "Terminator" movie, Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and study co-author, says there is no worry that this may lead to the end of human civilization. The xenobots are small, only live in a laboratory and can be easily killed."

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with some lab-created micro-beings that can multiply.......

After all of 2019/2020/2021 how could anyone think this was a good idea?

[540iSUP]

Well, it is a medical dream to be able to inject little robots into your body to fight viruses. Who knows, maybe this will lead to another COVID vaccine.