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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Xenobots

I’m alive. Your dog is alive. The ginormous spider keeping you from going into your own bathroom is alive. But although you may find yourself shouting obscenities at them, your smart phone, your laptop and your local automated supermarket checkout are certainly not alive. It seems self evident that there is a divide between machine and lifeform but for how long will that differentiation remain obvious to us? Sam Kriegman is a PhD student in Evolutionary Robotics at the University of Vermont and Lead Author of a new paper on Xenobots.