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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Future of Robotics
In the digital era the economic win ended up being centralized, the big platforms. So do you see a vision of just endless billions of robots at a different scale self-assembling, self-replicating and building complicated structures? Yes. One is that immediately raises King Charles Fear of Grey Goo of Runaway mutant self-reproducing things. The reason why there are many things I can tell you to worry about but that's not one of them. In light of everything I'm describing biology knows everything I told you. Every single thing I explain biology already knows how to do. What I'm describing isn't new for biology, it's new for non-biological systems.
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