As the Independent reports, "Scientists have created what they claim are the first ever "living robots": entirely new life-forms created out of living cells."
"It is the first time that humanity has been able to create "completely biological machines from the ground up", the team of authors behind the discovery write in a new paper."
The New York Times is similarly excited, writing "A Frankenstein material' teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce." Not to be outdone, Science reports ‘Frankenstein' material can self-heal, [and] reproduce.