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Self-Replication Process Holds Promise for Production of New Materials". Science Daily. 2011-10-17 . Retrieved 2011-10-14. Customizable, open APIs for randomizers and annotators let you build your own domain-specific workflow to programmatically generate diverse training data sets. However, the simplest possible case is that only a genome exists. Without some specification of the self-reproducing steps, a genome-only system is probably better characterized as something like a crystal. In the spirit of the 1980 "Advanced Automation for Space Missions" study, the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts began several studies of self-replicating system design in 2002 and 2003. Four phase I grants were awarded:

In many programming languages an empty program is legal, and executes without producing errors or other output. The output is thus the same as the source code, so the program is trivially self-reproducing. Greenwalt said the initiative should focus on “three things: money, production lines at full capacity and how to deliver these.” The Enterprise-D's replicators were used to provide blankets to a Bajoran refugee camp. ( TNG: " Ensign Ro")What is required is the rational design of an entirely novel replicator with a much wider range of synthesis capabilities.

A self-replicating machine is an artificial self-replicating system that relies on conventional large-scale technology and automation. Although suggested earlier than in the late 1940's by Von Neumann, no self-replicating machine has been seen until today. [ citation needed] Certain idiosyncratic terms are occasionally found in the literature. For example, the term clanking replicator was once used by Drexler [7] to distinguish macroscale replicating systems from the microscopic nanorobots or " assemblers" that nanotechnology may make possible, but the term is informal and is rarely used by others in popular or technical discussions. Replicators have also been called "von Neumann machines" after John von Neumann, who first rigorously studied the idea. However, the term "von Neumann machine" is less specific and also refers to a completely unrelated computer architecture that von Neumann proposed and so its use is discouraged where accuracy is important. [3] Von Neumann himself used the term universal constructor to describe such self-replicating machines. An activity in the field of robots is the self-replication of machines. Since all robots (at least in modern times) have a fair number of the same features, a self-replicating robot (or possibly a hive of robots) would need to do the following: NASA Institute for Advance Concepts study by General Dynamics- concluded that complexity of the development was equal to that of a Pentium 4, and promoted a design based on cellular automata. Leveraging commercial technology will be important to advance this initiative to produce at scale and use the latest technologies. Merkle-Freitas Hydrocarbon Molecular Assembler (2000-2003)". Molecularassembler.com. 2005-08-01 . Retrieved 2009-09-16.Hollow, Matthew. "Confronting a New 'Era of Duplication'? 3D Printing, Replicating Technology and the Search for Authenticity in George O. Smith's Venus Equilateral Series". Durham University . Retrieved July 21, 2013. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help)

a b HenryQuastler (1964) Emergence of Biological Organization, Yale University Press, New Haven Connecticut ASIN: B0000CMHJ2 Gregory Chirikjian ( Johns Hopkins University), "Architecture for Unmanned Self-Replicating Lunar Factories" [35] In 2005, Adrian Bowyer of the University of Bath started the RepRap project to develop a rapid prototyping machine that would be able to replicate itself, making such machines cheap enough for people to buy and use in their homes. The project is releasing material under the GNU GPL. [1] von Neumann, J., 1966, The Theory of Self-reproducing Automata, A. Burks, ed., Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL.The Foresight Institute has published guidelines for researchers in mechanical self-replication. [13] The guidelines recommend that researchers use several specific techniques for preventing mechanical replicators from getting out of control, such as using a broadcast architecture. In 2011, a team of scientists at New York University created a structure called 'BTX' (bent triple helix) based around three double helix molecules, each made from a short strand of DNA. Treating each group of three double-helices as a code letter, they can (in principle) build up self-replicating structures that encode large quantities of information. [44] [45] Self-replication of magnetic polymers [ edit ] Lipson, Hod; Evan Malone. "Autonomous Self-Extending Machines for Accelerating Space Exploration" (PDF) . Retrieved 2007-01-04.

Much of the design study was concerned with a simple, flexible chemical system for processing the ores, and the differences between the ratio of elements needed by the replicator, and the ratios available in lunar regolith. The element that most limited the growth rate was chlorine, needed to process regolith for aluminium. Chlorine is very rare in lunar regolith. Nanotechnologists in particular believe that their work will likely fail to reach a state of maturity until human beings design a self-replicating assembler of nanometer dimensions. [1] Dyson Terraforming Replicators (1970, 1979)". Molecularassembler.com. 2005-08-01 . Retrieved 2009-09-16.

Kemeny, John G. (April 1955). "Man Viewed as a Machine". Scientific American. 192 (4): 58–67. Bibcode: 1955SciAm.192d..58K. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0455-58. Todd, Paul (2004-04-30). "Final Progress Report on Robotic Lunar Ecopoiesis Test Bed" (PDF) . Retrieved 2007-01-04. (phase I report) Power would be provided by a "canopy" of solar cells supported on pillars. The other machinery could run under the canopy. Biology: studies of organismal and cellular natural replication and replicators, and their interaction, including sub-disciplines such as population dynamics, quorum sensing, autophagy pathways. These can be an important guide to avoid design difficulties in self-replicating machinery.