PORTLAND, Ore.--The micro-robots of the future will be cybernetic organisms programmed with DNA instead of binary code, according to researchers at the SynBio Summit 2015 | Mid-America . At the Cincinnati event hosted by Microbial Robotics, scientists demonstrated bioengineered viruses called Virobots and a bacteria it calls Bactobots, both of which aim to aid the world's most humanitarian endeavors -- such as Virobots that implement "The Cure, or living Bactobots that hunt down toxics to clean wastewater without chemicals, and eliminate the need for drugs of any kind. "We are building an open source community on the model of Linux, so that the big problems of today that are unfairly enriching the big pharmaceutical companies--where treating a disease's symptoms is more profitable than eradicating them--can be replaced by communal humanitarian efforts to eradicate disease for the greater good," Jason E. Barkeloo, founder and CEO of Microbial Robotics, told EE Times. Microbial Robotics CEO Jason E. Barkeloo explains how open-source tools will accelerate the development of living robots and cut costs. Microbial Robotics hope that crowd-sourcing the open-source code allowing new ventures to quickly develop viruses and bacteria that cure the incurable today, while adding Microbial Robots and its collaborators will … Continue reading →