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...

and the only common trait is the self-replicating nature. A von Neumann probe is a spacecraft capable of replicating itself. It is a concatenation of...

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John von Neumann's universal constructor is a self-replicating machine in a cellular automaton (CA) environment. It was designed in the 1940s, without...

sense. These include hypothetical machines that manipulate individual atoms and machines with organism-like self-replicating abilities, mobility, ability to...

architecture IAS machine, a computer designed in the 1940s based on von Neumann's design Self-replicating machine, a class of machines that can replicate themselves...

scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth...

theory and computer science literature are "self-replicating programs", "self-reproducing programs", and "self-copying programs". A quine is a fixed point...

short stories and novels by Fred Saberhagen, in which robotic self-replicating machines strive to destroy all life. These Berserkers, named after the...

Advocates of self-replicating machines such as Adrian Bowyer, the creator of the RepRap project, argue that once a self-replicating machine is designed...

also known as "digital referenced areas" (DRA) in some forms of self-replicating machine science. In the early 1990s, there was a significant amount of...

RepRap (a contraction of replicating rapid prototyper) is a project to develop low-cost 3D printers that can print most of their own components. As open...

Self-replicating machines Replication (computing), the use of redundant resources to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or performance Replication...

three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines. The greater part of the...

Freeman Dyson. An Astrochicken is a small, one-kilogram spacecraft, a self-replicating automaton that could explore space more efficiently than a crewed craft...

electromagnetically noisy civilizations being snuffed out by the arrival of self-replicating machines designed to destroy any potential threat to their (possibly long-dead)...

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of a form of quasi-life, born through evolution of autonomous, self-replicating machines, apparently left behind by an alien civilization ship which landed...

Computer security Email spam Father Christmas (computer worm) Self-replicating machine Technical support scam – unsolicited phone calls from a fake "tech...

Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks is a science fiction novel in his Culture series, first published in the UK on 7 October 2010 and the US on 28 October...

named after the Voynich manuscript. The voynix are biomechanical, self-replicating, programmable robots. They originated in an alternate universe, and...

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grey goo theory, an end-of-the-world scenario in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves...

effects, and...it's better than most of the stuff out there." Self-replicating machine List of films featuring extraterrestrials "*batteries not included...

imperfect self-replication and thus imperfect self-perpetuation because of recombination and mutation. Organisms are not like self-replicating machine but amass...

nanorobotics, how nanotechnology can extend the life of humans, self-replicating machines, and Cryonics. In 1980, Freitas and William Gilbreath were participants...

MakerBot Industries Milling center Organ-on-a-chip Robocasting Self-replicating machine Ultimaker Volumetric printing "3D printing scales up". The Economist...

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and the Machine is a book written by Norbert Wiener and published in 1948. It is the first public usage of the term "cybernetics" to refer to self-regulating...