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Self-Replicating Repairing Robots (http://www.forofriki.com)

Engineers at Cornell University have designed this odd-looking machine that can rebuild itself and also could perform repairs on itself. http://www.forofriki.com  
 
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pomeroy600287 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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This time.....you don't control the tetris bricks....
POVchannel (4 days ago) Show Hide
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Holy shit !
Shizzle6191 (5 days ago) Show Hide
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Sweet!
1jaime2222 (6 days ago) Show Hide
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magnet attraction
okuside (6 days ago) Show Hide
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NanoTech was the first thing that came ot mind when I saw this. You guys watch movies like terminator? When The robot's armour gets a hole through it and it repairs itself? This is a Big model. When they actually integrate this into nanotech, We'l have really awesome armours.
pomeroy600287 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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or you could use it for playing a wierd form of tetris...
mrwerty1000 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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cool but completely useless
legoman978 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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with this... you culd buld bridges that could never fall! ... or the most popular toy of 2012
NsaneNtheNbrane (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Everything. This is the future right here. :)
NsaneNtheNbrane (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Oh, never mind. You're 14.

Okay, I'll explain it. Nanotubes are made of carbon atoms that are bent into long tube shapes and are very sturdy, so they're good to be used in construction of buildings among other things. Nanotubes are hard to make by ourselves, but a self-replicating molecule with a "universal computer" can be programmed to make other molecules which can make the tubes atom by atom.

You could use molecular "robots" to make complicated molecules that can fight diseases too.

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