Rapid-Prototyping of Rapid-Prototyping Machines:
How to Make Something that Makes (almost) Anything
MAS.865 2021
Self-Replication
Literature
Rossum's Universal Robots
The Diamond Age
SkyNet
Engines of Creation
The Singularity is Near
Computational
Fifty Years of Research on Self-Replication: An Overview
Self-Reproducing Programs
The Quine Page
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
Von Neumann's Self-Reproducing Automata
An Implementation of von Neumann's Self-Reproducing Machine
Simple Self-Reproducing Universal Automata
Self-Reproduction in Cellular Automata
Self-Reproduction in Small Cellular Automata
A New Self-Reproducing Cellular Automaton Capable of Construction and Computation
Toward a Viable, Self-Reproducing Universal Computer
Life in Life
Reconfigurable Asynchronous Logic Automata
Mechanical
Automatic Mechanical Self Replication
A Self-Reproducing Analogue
Self-Reproducing Machines
Robotic
On Models of Reproduction
Self-Replication from Random Parts
Self-Reproducing Machines
RepRap-The Replicating Rapid Prototyper
Fabricatable Machines
Hierarchical Assembly of a Self-Replicating Spacecraft
A Discretely Assembled Walking Motor
Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics (DICE)
Chemical
The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
Minimal Self-Replicating Systems
A Self-Replicating Peptide
Assembly of Mesoscopic Analogues of Nucleic Acids
Using Lateral Capillary Forces to Compute by Self-Assembly
Chemical Evolution and the Evolutionary Definition of Life
Biological
DNA origami
Minimal Self-Replicating Systems
Towards Synthesis of a Minimal Cell
Development of an Artificial Cell, from Self-Organization to Computation and Self-Reproduction
Engineering Genetic Circuit Interactions Within and Between Synthetic Minimal Cells
Design and Synthesis of a Minimal Bacterial Genome
Morphogenesis