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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Different Types of Amino Acids
The answer is different at different length scales. All of biology is just made from this inventory of 20 parts amino acids and by composing them you can create all of life. So as part of this digitization of materials we're in effect trying to create something like amino acids for engineering, creating all of technology from 20 parts. See, as another discussion I hope started an office for science in Hollywood. And there was a fun thing for the movie The Martian where I did a program with Bill Nye and a few others on how to actually build a civilization on Mars. It's sort of how to create life in non-living materials.
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