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Multi-talented Microbots

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This paper describes emerging microbot technologies including 'xenobots' — tiny robots built from frog stem cells — that have been shown to collect and organize microplastics in laboratory experiments. While still experimental, living robots may offer a novel biological approach to environmental microplastic removal.

The microbot/xenobot designs focused on in this paper have applications both inside and outside the body. What you need to know about xenobots, since they are a very new invention, is that they are layered heart and skin tissue robots built from frog stem cells. The observed tasks that have been pub- lished are organizing microplastics, self-healing, and chemical communication with pheromones. There has never been an invention similar to xenobots, which is why they are paving a revolution as the first “Living Robots”[1]. These ap- plications include micro-sculpting nerve tissue inside the body and virus detec- tion/monitoring outside the body.Inside the body, microbots and xenobots working together can represent an effective new treatment against peripheral and diabetic neuropathy, preventing paralysis. Bolstering the body’s response to neural damage by clearing the restrictions of natural neural growth would allow neurons to regrow and connect much faster[2]; xenobots[1] alone can be injected into the traumatized area to decompose myelin sheath if this process is accessible within a few hours of serious nerve damage. In the long-term, after several months/years, xenobots and microbots[3] will come together, carrying neural stem cells, and following an external electromagnetic field to regenerate neurons and micro-sculpt nerve tissue in a three-step process. First, the xenobots (with biogenic magnetite) carry the cargo of neural progenitors, dropping them off at the dorsal root ganglion (also infected with biogenic magnetite). Then, axons of the neurons growing from the neural progenitor would grow in the direction of the microbot pulling it. The infrared light would power the twisted graphene bilayer and direct the microbot, pulling neurons to invoke growth and reconnecting the network of neurons near muscles.[5]Outside the body, xenobots will monitor virus concentrations with a virus stimulus and fluorescent light indication. After the coronavirus pandemic, virus destruction products such as the MAP-1 spray for coronavirus (distributed by Germagic) have proven successful. Determining exactly when a virus has resided in a particular area has not been proven, but would greatly aid in contact trac- ing. Microbots[3] and xenobots[1] are essential for determining how long a particular virus has resided on a surface, giving information about when peo- ple could have been infected. Horizontal gene integration from synthetic RNA and DNA origami mechanisms give xenobots sensitivity to viruses. Xenobots coming in contact with viruses can indicate surface virus contact by gradually increasing/decreasing the green color that they illuminate as the Green Fluo- rescent Protein goes through a positive feedback loop as viruses increase and decrease in contact with the xenobot. [8] This half-life of fluorescence is modeled by a differential equation in Attenuation of green fluorescent protein half-life in mammalian cells.[4]

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