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慈濟釋疑原文第一段:Xenobots, named after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired functions and built by combining together different biological tissues. Whether xenobots are robots, organisms, or something else entirely remains a subject of debate among scientists.原文第二段:The first xenobots were built by Douglas Blackiston according to blueprints generated by an AI program. Xenobots built to date have been less than one millimeter wide and composed of just two things: skin cells and heart muscle cells, both of which are derived from stem cells harvested from early frog embryos.選項(B) Xenobots: the First Synthetic Lifeform Robots 正確，因為 Xenobots 是電腦設計出來的成品，由青蛙胚胎幹細胞取出的皮膚細胞與心臟肌肉細 胞所組合而成，Xenobots 是機器與生物之合成品。科學家對於 Xenobots 到 底是機器人還是生物、抑或其他可能，仍有爭論，但是這並不能否定 Xenobots 也是一種 robots 的說法。選項(C) When Xenobots Have Been Developed 不正確，因為本文並不是聚焦 於 Xenobots 被發展出來的時間問題。