Another model of self-replicating machine would copy itself through the galaxy, sending information back.

Some experts are beginning to consider self-replicating machines for asteroid mining.

A number of patents have been granted for self-replicating machine concepts.

He also spoke about the idea of self-replicating machines.

No capability had been included for the on-board production of self-replicating machines.

Most of the research projects had ground to a halt after two or three generations of self-replicating machines.

The principal focus of the book is on self-replicating machine systems (see also: robot kinematics).

His interest in self-replicating machine systems has been recognized by Discover Magazine as one of seven ideas that could change the world.

Humans now command self-replicating machines that create engineering marvels on enormous scales.

Today he is almost a forgotten writer, but his predictions about artificial intelligence and self-replicating machines are uncanny.

Von Neumann himself used the term universal constructor to describe such self-replicating machines.

"Self-replicating machines can forage for raw materials anywhere.

You'll have a self-replicating machine making useful goods from a self-replicating material supply."

Hypothesized artificial life, self-replicating machines, and most simple molecules capable of self-replication, such as crystals, are not usually considered living.

"Molecular assemblers" have been confused with self-replicating machines.

Such massive construction projects might require the use of self-replicating machines to provide a suitably large "construction crew".

He was also a member of the RepRap Project, which aims at creating a self-replicating machine.

For example, an autotrophic self-replicating machine could cover a moon or planet with solar cells, and beam the power to the Earth using microwaves.

He is also known for a self-replicating machine scheme, joint work with Christopher Wendt .

Humans have colonised the solar system with the help of self-replicating machines called Von Neumanns.

Since 1951, when John von Neumann outlined the principles of self-replicating machines, scientists have generally acknowledged their possibility.

In a paper in the journal Nanotechnology, he argues that self-replicating machines are needlessly complex and inefficient.

Specifically with kinematic self-replicating machines systems in which actual physical objects, not mere patterns of information, undertake their own replication.

Droves of self-replicating machines could be unleashed to rip worlds to rubble, in every single planetary system in the galaxy.

The whole structure had been built by self-replicating machines of widely differing sizes and had been designed to be run by them.