Neurobots: Self-Assembling Frog-Cell Machines Grow Functional Nerves
Tufts and Wyss Institute researchers embedded neural precursor cells into self-assembling frog-cell xenobots to create neurobots with functional neural networks that move more complexly and stay active longer than non-neural bots; drug testing showed neural activity shapes movement, and transcriptomics revealed upregulation of vision-related genes, opening questions about nervous system formation in a novel biological context.
