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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Evolution of the Ribosome
The way you're manufactured is there's a code that describes you, the genetic code. The ribosome figured out 4 billion years ago how to embody these digital properties for construction. Think of a digital material just as Lego bricks: discrete set of parts reversibly joined with global geometry determined from local constraints. And so it's digitizing the materials. This led us make the lightest weight, high modulus material. We then showed that with just a few part types, we can tune the material properties and create wild robots.
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