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Can We Explore the Universe With Self-Replicating Robots?

(via PBS Space Time) Self-assembling robots are referred to as von Neumann machines after the man responsible for originally proposing them, John von Neumann. Since then, the potential of these machines and their ability to proliferate throughout known space has made galactic colonization seem not only possible but perhaps inevitable. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCScience Staff | Technology - Wednesday September 14th, 2016 | Send to a Friend