It's xeno because its biology is synthetic, alien to "natural" biology, and -bot because the structure is synthetic, like any other robot. It's interesting research, but seems a little haphazard to me.
"What if we make a Pacman shape out of frog cells" doesn't seem like it's leading anywhere profound.
I wonder if they could impose arbitrary logic, and implement something like Conway's game of life? Seems like you'd need a predictable algorithmic framework in order to achieve anything useful with it.
"What if we make a Pacman shape out of frog cells" doesn't seem like it's leading anywhere profound.
I wonder if they could impose arbitrary logic, and implement something like Conway's game of life? Seems like you'd need a predictable algorithmic framework in order to achieve anything useful with it.