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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Evolution of the Exponential Scaling of Digital Fabrication
The real breakthrough technologically isn't additive versus subtractive which is a subject of a lot of attention and hype. 3D printers are useful we spun off companies like Form Labs led by Max for 3D printing but in a FAB lab it's one of maybe 10 machines. The real technological change is when we go from printing and cutting to assembling and disassembling. It gets rid of technological trash because you can disassemble and reuse the parts not throw them away. And so initially that's of interest for things at the end of long supply chains like satellites on orbit.
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