0:00 [Music] scientists have now unveiled the world's first living robots last year and they can reproduce now oh my god that seems so scary they are just go ahead and imagine it for another second before i say no no no how do they reproduce so what they do is uh they cluster free floating stem cells together and just for context these bots uh so it's like biotechnology yeah these things that were kind of available that's even scary they're considered living machines not in that they are like uh actual like metal robots that we normally understand they are actual like stem cells from frogs they're they're bundles of stem cells from african clawed frogs aka xenopus lavish or whatever which is why they're called xenobots
0:50 and then they're programmed to accomplish specific tasks like via again i'm not scientists about like ████ electricity and different things that they actually do in order to actually um in i guess control the will of these stem cells wow wow haven't they seen planet of the apes or irobot or i they've been trying to warn us this isn't crazy ████ but these scientists want to play with fire ████ ████ scientists and now and they're like don't worry don't worry it's in a secure lab it's not nothing's gonna happen yeah like covered so yeah for real dude since the original study the team has been working to harness the power of these tiny robots named xenobots after the clawed frog's genus xenopus and in a new development the team announced that xenobots can now reproduce in a way that is completely different from any planet animal known
1:40 to science by scooping up free floating cells and assembling them into new clusters so what they pretty much do is like these little things are on ████ petri dishes and stuff yeah there's a bunch of other stem cells that are just there and then these xenobots will just go around and start like like pac-man just kind of scooping and picking up the other things and then making circles around them to cluster them together and then when other xenobots are aware almost like a hive mentality of like a culture of them they begin assisting and also taking other like themselves clustering together and then over a period of time using the clustering uh like just compacting it and then also interjecting some sort of other life juice that's like venom dude they ████ become venomous the back blacks and it goes into you and now you're venom right but the thing could leave you and then ████ going to you and your venom that sounds like some wally
2:31 ████ goddamn it says uh frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you liberate the cells from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment not only do they figure out a new way to move but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce who wants to see a little video i do i want to see so are we going to look at a little frog we are not looking at a frog we are looking at the stem cells that have been clustered together in order to create the xenobots and now the xenobots are doing their own clustering i hope after this they ████ exploded that ████ and completely destroyed it yeah destroy all evidence [Laughter] wow so you see how they just ████ go in circles and they start scooping
3:21 are they real robots or are they like oh my god [Music] but it's biotech wow [Music] inspirational music so good inspirational royalty free tracks the best all right all right that's insane so they're doing this ████ at wuhan to make covet better
4:13 so to create xenobox in the first place the team used a super computer to create a blueprint for a new life form that already sounds ████ nuts to me by the way no i'm good with the design in hand they collected stem cells from the frogs embryos and incubated them before reconfiguring them frankenstein style using tiny tweezers and an electrode into the shape designed by the supercomputer the xenobots could then be programmed to complete certain tasks and they've grown more complex since then in about five days xenobots can form spheres of around 3000 cells when they cluster and since they're able to work together the robo blob can move around and push single cells together to form new xenobots it's a process called kinematic self-replication a process only observed in molecules and not living things one xenobot parent can begin a pile and then by chance a second parent can push more cells into that pile and so on generating the child so to speak god
5:03 damn but there's a limit to how many baby bots can be created it turns out the xenobots will replicate once one generation they will make the children but the children are too small and weak to make grandchildren so it can't continue in the cycle so it's like a donkey is that how it works or the meal or mule uh or a biker yeah they're i think their children's are steriles that's good yeah until they until there's a big kid and another big kid and then they figure it out and then they figure it out yeah it's kind of like the survival of the fittest right evolution so it says though this research is in its infant phases the team has high hopes for the xenobots with further development they could be used in medicine such as to help deliver drugs within the body or to clean up environmental contaminants um pretty much anything that you can throw a ████ organism in so
5:53 i'm saying so like it's a it's an organic wall-e dude we made all this human trash like i bet you one day they're gonna invent something that eats and uh plastic they're gonna find something that comes and digests plastic and then they're going to release it but imagine that being like super sized in the ocean yeah it would just look like a giant ████ brain blog slug and it would just be going around moseying its way and just eating stuff and then like you're like we're gonna just have like bio computer tech ████ live but really weird soft squishy weird alien like a big jellyfish yeah you ever seen um starship troopers yeah remember the ████ brain alien thing i imagine that giant blob just sucking out brains some say we are genetic experiments from aliens i think we are dude we're weird
6:44 so that's why it could happen my parents are aliens all of us illegal aliens illegal it's fine refugees man i mean i i i personally think that uh i these stuff these things can't be stopped like it's like you watch the ████ uh irobots and the different movies talk about skynet obviously technology is going to like overtake us all about it's gonna happen anyway so next progression it's okay it's evolution we're gonna die anyway we're all gonna die after after you reading the article and explaining a little bit i still don't know what half that ████ means but it does make me feel a little bit safer yeah but they're gonna be done more to understand you know just the everything no but the fact that you're gonna that you're gonna use this for medicine and all that type of stuff i'm like okay cool and that's how it starts right that's how it always starts anybody
7:34 watch the new arcadian show arcane on netflix i heard it's very good what's that about uh without any spoilers because based off of league of legends champions and stuff like that let's just say the whole point why i'm even bringing it up it's like a weapon tech when you first like develop the tech it's like to to do good or good yeah it's like to protect this or to make this a work chain faster or like to like save innocent civilians from having to do this labor until the president of pfizer gets a hold of it exactly and then and then suddenly becomes weaponized right so like it's i feel like we're at this weird point where um it's not it's not so like physical realm 3d inventions we're not reinventing the wheel or creating like a steam engine or whatever we're like now into this new space of like biotech and other things that we can't ████ fathom in our minds but the second we
8:24 weaponize ████ like that yeah dangerous like covey yeah i like covering understand something like this is uh you know our insulin it's made by bacteria yeah so they program the bacteria to only produce insulin so it's almost like you know when you have a tumor it's an uncontrolled growth right it's like your dna or your rna whatever it there's like a glitch in the system so instead of constantly repeating a sequence and creating the different proteins your body needs it's just i'm only making this protein so now you have this uncontrolled growth that turns into a tumor it's kind of that concept in a bacteria and it's only making insulin and that's how we harvest that and we harvest that insulin for our program a bacteria through the rna dude you get some of those through the rna you program it and then uh because everything that is that you see like your eye color ████ hair color whatever it's all a genetic code so if you figure out the code then you can make it produce what you want to produce
9:15 yeah and that's how insulin is made and so i'm sure they're adjusting whatever the code they need to get this uh robot to do only one function until the president of pfizer gets a hold of it and there's going to be doing some questions damn visor i feel i feel like there's like a lot of really good applications for this technology um but i think something interesting is that like when the scientists who make this stuff do you think they think about like all the really bad outcomes that could happen ████ me talking about the nobel prize they're about to win because like because i know that um in their most recent um ████ geeks dude were they uh interviewed the guy who created deep fakes or something and then they're saying like yeah this is a really cool technology but now i feel that's just been used to do porn exclusively almost exclusively these are gonna make fleshlights only the best rubber
10:06 i feel like these dudes are so smart they like always underestimate how ████ dumb the rest of the world is so then when it gets used for other ████ they're like what the ████ i gave you a gift to cure cancer and you guys are just jacking off all day yeah with deep fakes [Music] you
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