If we let robots design themselves in simulations, they can come up with totally novel forms and materials—and some can reproduce to form lightly mutated offspring.

Studies of reproducing robots show that the technology could be applied to other areas in the future, like medicine and environmental cleanup.

It might soon be easy to build living robots — because they'll build themselves. New Scientist reports Harvard University, Tufts University and University of Vermont researchers have learned ...

Interesting research, but no, we don’t have living, reproducing robots Don't believe the hype—this isn't reproduction or replication.

Researchers introduce a process that allows machines to 'grow' physically by integrating parts from their surroundings or from other robots, demonstrating a step towards self-sustaining robot ...

Researchers have created a new generation of biological robots, dubbed "xenobots," and they're able to self-assemble and navigate mazes.

The robots are alive, and now they can reproduce. That’s not a sequel to “The Terminator.” It’s the result of new research showing that microscopic life-forms made of frogs’ stem cells ...

The Xenobots can self-heal, and they reproduce in an entirely different way—Xenobots build other Xenobots.

The world’s first living robots — known as “xenobots” — can now reproduce, US scientists have revealed. Details about the robots, created using the heart and skin stem cells from the ...