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Mark Bedau, COO of ProtoLife in Venice, Italy, believes that within ten years, scientists will be able to create artificial living cells. We're not talking about microscopic machines that can swim around and such. Bedau expects to see real living cells with DNA and metabolic processes that can ingest food from the surrounding environment and process it into energy. He says they may even ...

Whether fetching our injured and dead bodies from the battlefield during live combat, or keeping our senior citizens company as they sit around in old-age homes, robots really just want to be our friends (and eat our young, but that's another story for another time). Gizmodo was at the RoboBusiness 2007 Expo and got a look at all of the above. Other happenings in the world of robotics include ...