replicators arrive
hod lipson and company at cornell have announced the arrival of the replicators.
“Although the machines we have created are still simple compared with biological self-reproduction, they demonstrate that mechanical self-reproduction is possible and not unique to biology,” Hod Lipson said in a report in the science journal Nature on Wednesday.
update: with video [wmv].
Self-Replicating Robot
Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves — via meta-roj blog…
Trackback by Column of the Wolf — May 12, 2005 @ 6:55 am
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. (Ahem.)
Imagine the power this could exert when combined with Real ID!
Comment by Asheesh Laroia — May 12, 2005 @ 1:30 pm
i’m imagining…. grey goo.
Comment by roj — May 12, 2005 @ 9:12 pm