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born 1974 United States
Josh Bongard (born April 17, 1974) is a professor at the University of Vermont and a 2010 PECASE awardee. He is the co-author of the popular science book entitled "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence" and "Designing Intelligence: Why Brains Aren't Enough".
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There's all of this innate creativity in life,We want to understand that more deeply—and how we can direct and push it toward new forms.
In xenobots, the shape … dictates what a xenobot is going to do. It dictates whether it’s going to replicate, how it replicates [and] what it’s going to look like.
These xenobots are fully biodegradable,when they're done with their job after seven days, they're just dead skin cells.
We sliced the robot almost in half and it stitches itself back up and keeps going,And this is something you can't do with typical machines.
We all learned in high school biology that frog DNA encodes frogs and human DNA encodes humans. It seems that’s not the case, Whatever genes are doing, it’s more complicated than that.
These are novel living machines,They're neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.