How We Accidentally Started Making Infinite Robots

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Credits:
Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations)
Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/)
Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net)
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Producer: Brian McManus (   / realengineering  )

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Additional Footage and huge thanks to:
University of Vermont
Tufts University
Sam Kriegman
Doug Blackiston
Michael Levin

Music:
Anti-Gravity by Philip Logan
Ripples by Tamuz Dekel
Beat Dream by Tengrams
Odd Numbers by Curtis Cole
The Shoulder Tap by Tamuz Dekel
This Glass no lead vocals by Luminar
Premonition by Evgeny Bardyuzha

References:

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[8] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
[9]    • Xenobots - The World's First Biologic...  
[10] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...
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[12] https://scitechdaily.com/xenobots-2-0...