On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Adam Monsen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 13:15 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > >> That is kinda funny because these machines just can't do that. > > Sure they can: http://reprap.org Of course it can make some parts of itself. That one was designed specifically for that purpose and it still can only do 60%. This was the first self-replicating robot, but it needed to have parts given to it: http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/videos/20050511_self-replicating_robots.mpg I think I took that from Nature in May 2005. These things do make you wonder what will be possible someday. Mike