self-replicating robots!

[Deleted member 259]

Ithaca, N.Y. -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed small,
simple robots that can replicate themselves, according to a new report in the
science journal Nature.
The robots, which are 4-inch cubes, can bend, pick up components and form new cubes. They do not do anything but make copies of themselves, powered electromagnetically through contacts on the surface of a specially powered table, and transferring data to newly formed cubes through their faces.
"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, one of the Cornell researchers, said in the Nature article.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/selfrep.ws.html

 

[Deleted member 259]

Do you mean where do you get the robots?

Because you can't, not yet. And by they time we can they will have already taken over.

Or where do I get this information?

--My uncle sent me an email with the address attached, so I guess its a word of moth thing thus far. I'm surprised the media hasn't really picked it up.

 

[BellyTank]

Invasion of the Cubes???

Look out! Cubes!
Knock 'em off their table and see what those big boys can do!
Cube scum!

Ptui!

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