Robotics Self-replication from random parts

Autonomously self-replicating machines have long caught the imagination but have yet to acquire the sophistication of biological systems, which assemble structures from disordered building blocks. Here we describe the autonomous self-replication of a reconfigurable string of parts from randomly posi...

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Published in:Nature 2005-09, Vol.437 (7059), p.636-636
Main Authors: Jacobson, Joseph M, Griffith, Saul, Goldwater, Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Assembly
Automation
Autonomous
Biological
Biomimetics - instrumentation
Biomimetics - methods
Color
DNA Replication
Industrial robots
Kinetics
Manufacturing engineering
Models, Biological
Robotics
Robotics - instrumentation
Robotics - methods
Strings
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Summary:Autonomously self-replicating machines have long caught the imagination but have yet to acquire the sophistication of biological systems, which assemble structures from disordered building blocks. Here we describe the autonomous self-replication of a reconfigurable string of parts from randomly positioned input components. Such components, if suitably miniaturized and mass-produced, could constitute self-fabricating systems whose assembly is brought about by the parts themselves.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/437636a