Link U.S. scientists create self-replicating robot Wed May 11, 1:22 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. ADVERTISEMENT Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves. Each robot consists of several 10-cm (4 inch) cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach and detach to each other and a computer program for replication. The robots can bend and pick up and stack the cubes. "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. He and his team believe the design principle could be used to make long term, self-repairing robots that could mend themselves and be used in hazardous situations and on space flights. The experimental robots, which don't do anything else except make copies of themselves, are powered through contacts on the surface of the table and transfer data through their faces. They self-replicate by using additional modules placed in special "feeding locations." The machines duplicate themselves by bending over and putting their top cube on the table. Then they bend again, pick up another cube, put it on top of the first and repeat the entire process. As the new robot begins to take shape it helps to build itself. "The four-module robot was able to construct a replica in 2.5 minutes by lifting and assembling cubes from the feeding locations," said Lipson.
hopefully, robots will practice birth control....no need for a bunch of b*stard orphan robots running around spending my tax dollars on microchips and oil...
Don't worry, they will have OIL-HIVinfections and a huge epidemic will break out during their "lifetime"... and some will go on to sign with SONY-Lowes to create their own Movie Theater chains... that will be their downfall, you shall see...
Why did the machines in matrix kept people alive? Was it for energy? Ya that's what they will use us for.
The Cornell video of the robot can be found here: http://www.mae.cornell.edu/ccsl/research/selfrep/video/4x4ht4.wmv
Wouldn't that be: "1000"? There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't..
but we Irish can still drink robots under the table. no way a robot can beat us at drinking. sorry. ain't happenin'. oh, and fighting pointlessly. good luck topping us at that. punks!!!
OH, we're NOT that far behind you, "punks"... (SFW - warning, large image), but YES, let's beat the ROBOTS pointlessly to a pulp! Mexicans and Irish unite! (we have almost the same flag...)
wow..i never thought about that!!! kindred spirits!!! can you imagine how much would be accomplished if Mexicans and Irishmen united??? there'd be no stopping us. common colors, indeed.
i missed the joke...who is SJ?? wow....if i read you right...and i believe that i do...you're proposing an alliance between those from Ireland, Mexico and Qatar. what could possibly go wrong?
