Robotics: self-replication from random parts |
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Authors: | Griffith Saul Goldwater Dan Jacobson Joseph M |
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Affiliation: | Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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