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We Have Concerns

Birth of the Xenobots

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Pop, Society & Culture, Culture, Games, Gadgets, News, Internet, Comedy, Science

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tufts University biologists Douglas Blackiston and Michael Levin have created all programmable organisms called xenobots — golems dreamed in silicon and then written into flesh.

Transcript

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0:00.0

🎵Music🎵

0:10.1

Twitchin' and Trace and Trace and Twitchin' baby!

0:12.2

This is We Up Concerns!

0:13.9

Hi Jeff Canata!

0:15.0

Hi Anthony Carboni!

0:16.3

Hello Concerns citizens!

0:19.0

Anthony, I wanna tell you about Zeno bots!

0:23.1

Oh my favorite anime from the 90s!

0:25.5

Because we did it! We made them!

0:28.6

We did it!

0:29.8

No, I used to get... I remember they had Zeno bots at McDonald's for a little while,

0:34.6

and if you collect it all five of them...

0:36.2

You can get the large Zeno bot, you pop together?

0:38.9

You make Zeno Lord!

0:40.1

Right, I forgot about Zeno Lord!

0:42.8

Never forget about Zeno Lord, my dude!

0:45.1

Well, we have created our own Zeno Lord, or maybe some Zeno Lords have created Zeno bots.

0:51.3

The point is...

0:52.2

Yeah, I don't wanna get into Zeno bots lore right now, cause I can go all day!

0:55.8

You know, because there was the Japanese Zeno bots, and then when they were bought by the American company,

1:00.5

they re-edited all the episodes!

1:02.9

Yeah, and they cut it all together in a strange way, and they added subplots that weren't there.

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