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Comments on Self-Replicating Modular Robots
Cornell scientists have been working on machines that replicate themselves. Their strategy is to use small modules that attach to each other with electromagnets. (Read
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| "Don't forget the dreaded Replicators from Stargate SG-1.
http://www.gateworld.net/omnipedia/races/links/replicators.shtml" (Winchell Chung 5/12/2005 8:35:35 AM) |
| "Also, theres a book, Nano by John Robert Marlow which is quite good for nanotech, since it shows you most of the applications in a story.
" (Cabel 5/14/2005 5:29:07 AM) |
| "Don't forget the work going on at Bath University in UK where a copying machine that produces working copies of itself is underway. An extension to producing functioning parts and other machines is obvious. (Jim - You're right - and I have an article about that on the site. See Self-Replicating Robots. Bill, Chief Technovelgist)" (jimgoss 6/29/2005 5:13:18 PM) |
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