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Self-replicating machine

A self-replicating machine is a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature. The concept of self-replicating machines has been advanced and examined by Homer Jacobson, Edward F. Moore, Freeman Dyson…

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related to Further reading · 53
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related to Lackner-Wendt Auxon replicators · 20
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related to Moore's artificial living plants · 7
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Self-replicating machine → artificial self-replicating system that relies on conventional large-scale technology and automation, type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment

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Self-replicating machineis aartificial self-replicating system that relies on conventional large-scale technology and automation0.90text
Stephen Kleene who began developing recursion theory in the 1930sinstance ofScientific study of self-reproducing machines was anticipated by John Bernal as early as 1929 and by mathematicians0.80text
the 1967 novel Berserker by Fred Saberhagen or the 1950 novellette trilogy The Voyage of the Space Beagle by Ainstance ofbut the concept had appeared earlier in science fiction0.80text
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