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Self-Replicating Robots

Posted by samzenpus on from the beginning-of-the-end dept.

ABC News is running a story that self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Scientists at Cornell University have created small robots that can build copies of themselves. Here is a movie demonstrating the self-replication process. And the paper that will be published in Thursdays issue of Nature.

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  1. That isn't quite right friend by newpath4comVersion2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Any robot can be made to have self-powering capability, very easily in fact. All needs doing is a generator under each foot, and use Gravity as the force... pressing the generators per each step. Your safety chute just collapsed. BTW, not that anyone cares, but I know how to program a thinking robot. And I really don't think anyone wants it, do we? I don't. I don't aspire to making another life form to compete with us. A robotic life would see us as inefficient and stupid. We wouldn't be the level of a spit of chewing tobacco to such a one. You better hope no one besides me thinks of it cause the idiot would probably release it. And we would all die.