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Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines

By Robert A. Freitas Jr. , Ralph C. Merkle

Book information

Publisher
Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com
Year
2004
ISBN
9781570596902, 1570596905
Open Library ID
OL8697096M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13418961 bytes)
Pages
358\358
Topic
Technique
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Freitas (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing) and Merkle (computer sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology) offer the first general review of the voluminous theoretical and experimental literature pertaining to physical self-replicating systems since the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration report and survey published in the middle 1980s. Their focus is on machine systems in which actual physical objects, not merely patterns of information, undertake their own replication in physical space-thus kinematic. The goal is to provide researchers a solid foundation from which to initiate their studies, and to help focus abstract philosophical discussions of self-replication in more concrete terms based on the emerging ability to make such machines.

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