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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
How to Boot-Strap a Civilization on Mars
There's going to be 20 basic building blocks based on which the self-replicating assemblers can work. You extract properties like conducting, insulating, semi-conducting, magnetic, dielectric, flexural. With those, those are enough for us to assemble logic and they're enough for we to assemble actuation. The bigger robots can then take the building block materials and make the structural elements that you then do to make construction.
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