Self-replicating / repairing robot proof-of-concept

seattleniceguy

Fellow techno-geeks, prepare to be wowed.
Here's the article:
http://www.physorg.com/news4055.html
And here's the movie!!
http://www.mae.cornell.edu/ccsl/research/selfrep/video/4x4ht4a.mpg
SNG
Euphemism

Damn! That is the perfect example of elegant thinking. Very cool.
Pole

Very much "a proof-of-concept" at this stage. Where concept stands for a simplification of reality that pleases the aesthetics "module" of our cognition.
Pole
Preston

Whoa...this is very HAL 9000!
- Preston
melmac

I thought witlesses were self-replicating robots... assimilated by the Borg.