Uh oh

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• ShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK

  May 2005

  very cool:)
• Messiah Failed Experiment

  May 2005

  Extremely uncomplicated (should have said "robots that can put together other robots if they have the parts", but cool nonetheless.
• Capt.Montoya Ranger

  May 2005

  Re: Uh oh
  
  [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by The Cabl3 Guy [/i]
  [B]the [URL=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050511/sc_nm/science_robots_dc_2]Nanites[/URL] are coming! [/B][/QUOTE] That depends on who you ask... many scientists involved in nanotechnology have expressed serious doubts and criticisms about the possibility of self-replicating nanomachines.
  The "grey goo" scenario of Drexler, popularized by Crichton, may never come to pass.
  Anyone having access to a University library with an online subscription to Nature might be able to view and download a PDF of the original article, as well as access the suplementary information which includes a Quicktime movie of the reproduction process.
  The Yahoo news report is misleading in that it doesn't explain that "bending" is achieved by reconfiguring the connections between the faces of the rigid cubes to form arcs (given how clumsy that sounds maybe it's best they didn't describe it;) in any event, the pictures in the original article show that clearly), it also lacks the detail that the robots consist of only four cubes.
  
  Interesting news, nice proof of principle, but it may not have the far-reaching (and by far I mean nano-small ;)) implications.
• Lord Refa Creepy, but in a good way

  May 2005

  Cool.. I'll let them enhance my skillzors with nanites any day.