{"id":418,"date":"2005-05-13T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/13\/MechanicalProcreation.aspx"},"modified":"2005-05-13T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:00:19","slug":"mechanical-procreation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/13\/mechanical-procreation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical procreation"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s cool, and then there’s geeky cool.  I think this is both.<\/P>
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Robots master reproduction<\/FONT><\/STRONG>
<\/A>Andreas von Bubnoff<\/FONT>
Modular machine assembles copies of itself in minutes.
 
Humans do it, bacteria do it, even viruses do it: they make copies of themselves. Now US researchers have built a flexible robot that can perform the same trick.
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Cool, right?  What? I’m a geek?  Here, watch this video<\/A> then tell me if it’s cool.<\/P>
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For the full story, please check out the article at Nature.com<\/A>.<\/P>
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robot.jpg<\/P>
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“Sarah Connor?”<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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