November 29, 20214 yr I'm probably the last one to see this but, just in case, here it is: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html or for the really smart folks (definitely not me): https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2112672118 The lead author states "There are many things that are possible if we take advantage of this kind of plasticity and ability of cells to solve problems,", but I can't imagine where this is leading to. Dugald Walker
November 29, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, dmwalker said: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html When I was a kid reading science fiction and first heard about Von Neumann machines, everybody at the time thought that they would be made out of plastic and metal and other space-age materials, but nowadays it seems like they have just as much a chance of being biologically-based... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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