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How do you build biological machines and biobots from living cells?

Seminar by Dr. Douglas Blackiston at the National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science meeting. My research involves a collaboration between biologists and roboticists, constructing fully biological machines from embryonic amphibian cells, engineered to exhibit a specific behavior. In this presentation, I how a computer simulator automatically designs diverse candidate lifeforms in silico to perform a desired function. The best performing simulation is then selected, and a living biological representation is constructed using a cell-based toolkit sourced from amphibian stem cell lineages. This approach provides insight into biological self-organization and ecological/biomedical applications, and lays the groundwork for future large-scale and automated deployment of fully biological constructs capable of a variety of user specified tasks.