BOSTON - Xenobots, also known as the world’s first living robots, have the capability to reproduce, according to a recent study from the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University.

I have always been very interested in building objects and creating robots, but who isn't? Robots are the coolest. I've always thought they were great and wanted to work on them, but it took me a ...

Living, moving, self-replicating robots funded by the U.S. military. No, that's not a sci-fi thriller coming to a theater near you. It's "xenobots," microscopic computer-designed robots made entirely ...

When University of Vermont researcher Josh Bongard and his colleagues in Massachusetts began working on a project to build robots using artificial intelligence and frog stem cells, one of their first ...

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Researchers have achieved something that sounds like the beginning of a science fiction movie - living robots that have learned to reproduce. Pac-Man-shaped xenobots gathering stem cells into piles, ...

American scientists who created the Xenobots, the first living robots, from frog embryo cells reported Monday that they can now reproduce. They explained the process they observed, the robots are able ...

Whenever we’re confronted with aspects of science fiction becoming scientific reality, philosophical questions arise. This week, many were asking this one: What is a robot, really? Films and TV shows ...