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Reproducing Robots

by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 30, 2000 12:44pm PDT
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Even more signs computers really won't need us in the future, as scientists have created a system where robots can design and construct other robots. Right now several robots are creating tiny plastic prototype robots and they are described as ``nearly a self-replicating artificial life system.''. About the only thing they can't do yet is snapping in the motors.

However, automatically-produced robots would still be designed for specific tasks and would not be the all-purpose humanoids of science fiction.
Well yeah we can only hope for robots that don't realize they can do without us...




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