First ’living robots’ designed on supercomputer

Tiny ’xenobots’ made up of living cells have been created by teams of scientists at the University of Vermont and Tufts University using a supercomputer to design them. The millimetre-wide bots could move toward a target and automatically repair themselves and researchers hope they will help clear human arteries, clean microplastics from the oceans and find radioactive waste Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► Support the Guardian ►