Computer-Designed Organisms (Xenobots)

Organisms designed by evolutionary algorithm from Xenopus cells whose behavior is purely a function of evolved shape, not genomic information — inverting normal software/hardware conception

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Claims (1)

claim

The increased use of evolutionary dynamics by engineers makes it impossible to use evolved vs. designed as a clear demarcation between two classes of beings.
supports
Argument against origin story as basis for life/machine distinction

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Institute For Computationally Designed Organismsinstitute0.831
Xenobotsframework0.805
Synthetic biotic constructs made from repurposed frog embryo skin cells that form self-motile robots with novel morphologies and behaviors including kinematic self-replication; demonstrate cellular competency beyond normal developmental constraints.
Can Organisms Be Designed And Engineered To Havequestion0.801
Xenobiology / Diverse Life Formsconcept0.780
Wild-type frog skin cells form novel proto-organisms (Xenobots) without genomic editing.finding0.774
From Blackiston et al. (2021) and Kriegman et al. (2020), reveals emergent goals from cellular collectives.
Xenobots (frog skin cells) exhibit kinematic self-replication when provided with loose cells.finding0.768
Empirical result from Kriegman et al. 2021: frog cell-derived synthetic organisms replicate without sexual reproduction.
Xenobots’ anatomical and behavioral goals are emergent, rather than directly selected over aeons.claim0.766
Argues that goal states arise without direct evolutionary sculpting.
Biobotsconcept0.765
Synthetic living machines with predictable behavior.