xenobots seem like a bad name for something that is neither alien or robot.
"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.
Imagine using autologous xenobots (homobots?) as a drug delivery mechanism for humans.
> 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.
Exactly. When I look at these xenobots I see a prototype for programmable matter. Imagine using these kinds of things to run programs where the output of the programs isn't shifting bits in a CPU but shifting molecules in a substrate.
You could use these for autonomous manufacturing from the microscale and up.