Swarms of tiny living robots have discovered the ability to self-replicate, i.e. reproduce, through the process of gathering single cells and assembling them together to form new organisms, through a unique process not seen until now in plants or animals. Researchers Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard; from Tufts University, Harvard, and the University of Vermont had created these life forms, called xenobots, in 2020, using stem cells taken from the embryo of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. Unspecialized cells which have the capability to evolve into different types of cells are known as stem cells. Researchers scraped off living stem cells from frog embryos and incubated them without manipulating the genes in order to create xenobots. Xenobots are not robots, as commonly understood to be constructed of inorganic matter, but are named as such because of their ability to act on behalf of humans, according …