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SPACE EXPLORATION. "One application that highlights the advantages of self-reconfigurable systems is long-term space missions. These require long-term self-sustaining robotic ecology that can handle unforeseen situations and may require self repair. Self-reconfigurable systems have the ability to handle tasks that are not known a prioritise especially compared to fixed configuration systems." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reconfiguring_Modular_Robotics View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend is on bacteria without cell walls represent a peculiar class of organisms. They are called L-Form bacteria, and are a natural experiment for life without cells walls, as well as a model for an early primitive life form. These creatures turn out to be particularly interesting. This dovetails with the membrane adaptations of extremophile bacteria in previous Fragments. View in LinkedIn

FUTURE OF DNA BOTS. "Eventually, such DNA bots might be given the ability to replicate and evolve, at which point this variety of programmable matter could become increasingly complex and capable on its own." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

EVOLVING MOLECULAR BOTS. "Nanotechnologists ... see the future of intelligent machines at the level of molecules: tiny robots that evolve and ... come together to form intelligent superorganisms. Perhaps the future of artificial intelligence will be both silicon- and carbon-based: digital brains directing complex molecular structures to copulate at the nanometre level and reproduce." Robotic swarming superorganisms. https://lnkd.in/dhAg_hD View in LinkedIn

FUTURE SPACE AMBASSADORS. "The goal ... is for future robots to be self-learning and self-replicating, armed with a 3D printer that would allow automatons to create new robots or tools to solve problems, like navigating an asteroid." https://lnkd.in/dPJh5nY View in LinkedIn

"MACHINE LEARNING has been around for years. New algorithms for data analysis, combined with increasing computer power and interconnectedness, means that intelligent machines will be able to comprehend massive amounts of contextual information." https://lnkd.in/dhAg_hD View in LinkedIn

SAMEL BUTLER "concluded “it was the race of the intelligent machines and not the race of men which would be the next step in evolution”. https://lnkd.in/dhAg_hD View in LinkedIn

UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTOR. "Self-replicating machines have been around, at least in theory, for decades. In 1949, the mathematician John von Neumann showed how a machine could replicate itself. He called it the “universal constructor” because the machine was both an active component of the construction and the target of the copying process." https://lnkd.in/dhAg_hD View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS. "Ultimately, the question whether self-reproducing robots will evolve or not boils down to the capability of artificial intelligence systems to self-improve. Only then could the “brains” of the robotic factory build evolved robots without the need of human designers. It’s already happening." https://lnkd.in/dhAg_hD View in LinkedIn

ROBOTS THAT REPLICATE AND EVOLVE. "By supplying and removing ‘fuel strands’ that drive strand pairing and unpairing, it is possible to make molecular-scale machines that move, such as DNA ‘walkers’ that stride along guide strands. Eventually such DNA systems might be given the ability to replicate and evolve." https://lnkd.in/dDwjZMg View in LinkedIn