{"id":90663,"date":"2020-01-27T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=90663"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T11:35:14","slug":"worlds-first-living-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-first-living-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first living robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements:<br> (1) United States have created the world\u2019s first \u201cliving robots\u201d named \u201cxenobots\u201d<br> (2) It has been built from the cells of the African clawed frog<br> Choose the correct one:<br> (a) Only(1)<br> (b) Only(2)<br> (c) Both(1) and (2)<br> (d) None of the above<br> Answer:(c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Scientists in the United States have created the world\u2019s first \u201cliving robots\u201d named \u201cxenobots\u201d.<\/li><li>The tiny robots have been built from the cells of the African clawed frog. <\/li><li>Scientists have repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms.<\/li><li>The robots have been named after the species of aquatic frog Xenopus laevis, found across sub-Saharan Africa from Nigeria and Sudan to South Africa.<\/li><li>While humans have been manipulating organisms for their benefit since at least the dawn of agriculture, and genetic editing has created a few artificial organisms in recent years, the latest research is a breakthrough because it designs, for the first time ever, \u201ccompletely biological machines from scratch\u201d.<\/li><li>The xenobots can move toward a target, perhaps pick up a payload (like a medicine that needs to be carried to a specific place inside a patient) \u2014 and heal themselves after being cut.<\/li><li>Many useful applications of these living robots include searching out nasty compounds or radioactive contamination, gathering microplastic in the oceans, travelling in arteries to scrape out plaque, etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Xenopus Laevis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Xenopus is a genus of African frogs that are commonly known as the African clawed frogs. <\/li><li>Two species of Xenopus are regularly used by biologists, Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis. Both species are fully aquatic, and are easy to maintain in captivity.<\/li><li>Xenopus is a valuable tool because they are:<\/li><li>Hardy, fully aquatic and easy to maintain in the laboratory,<\/li><li>Produce eggs year-round,<\/li><li>Eggs are a reliable and flexible material for research,<\/li><li>Embryos are a good model for vertebrate development,<\/li><li>Genetically similar to humans thus a good model for human disease<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/meet-xenobots-worlds-first-ever-living-robots\/articleshow\/73260339.cms\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/meet-xenobots-worlds-first-ever-living-robots\/articleshow\/73260339.cms<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/xenobot-ai-biology-2644880026.html\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/xenobot-ai-biology-2644880026.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements: (1) United States have created the world\u2019s first \u201cliving robots\u201d named \u201cxenobots\u201d (2) It has been built from the cells of the African clawed frog Choose the correct one: (a) Only(1) (b) Only(2) (c) Both(1) and (2) (d) None of the above Answer:(c) Related facts: Scientists in the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":90664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-90663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}