Re: self-propagating RCX program

"Steve Hassenplug" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lego.robotics
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On Fri, September 9, 2005 1:07 pm, danny staple wrote:
> On 09/09/05, Steve Hassenplug <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> However, I think making a self-replicating robot from LEGO is not realistic.
>>
> I think efforts to build a Lego Robot that builds simple Lego models
> have been made, and sucessfully, but only for fairly simple assemblies
> ( a 4 peice Lego "Duck").

You're right.  If it's possible to design a robot that can build a four piece duck,
it must be possible to design a robot that can build a robot that can build other
robots.  How many parts can these robots have anyway?  Maybe a couple hundred. 
That's only fifty times as many as a duck.

Still, I think I'll stand by my claim that making a self-replicating robot from LEGO
is not realistic.

Steve
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