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On Mon, 7/21/2025 1:55 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-07-21 19:35, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2025-07-21, Daniel70 wrote:
>>
>>> On 20/07/2025 9:34 pm, Paul wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Your first robot, should have been one with hands,
>>>> so it could assemble your other robots for you.
>>>
>>> Hmmm! Robots assembling Robots!! Isn't that part of the backstory of
>>> Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" string of films??
>>
>> I once read a short story about robots assembling robots. Unfortunately
>> I can remember neither the author nor the title (although the title might
>> be something like "How the World Ended"). The basic idea was that the
>> robots had an overriding desire to build more robots, and would take
>> apart other machinery to get parts. This brought an end to war, since
>> robots would disassemble weapons to get parts to build more robots.
>> In the end robots became a sort of natural resource: take half a dozen
>> lower halves of robots, lay a plank across them, and you have a wagon.
>> It was a clever story; I wish I could find it again.
>
> I remember another history, set in the Asimov Robot City universe, in which
there were robot cells. Put many together, throw a positronic mind, and a
power cell, and it would shape itself into a robot, of any shape.
>
> No wikipedia article, funny. The link is red.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_City
>
It's not red. It is perhaps not finished (sitting in draft?).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Isaac_Asimov%27s_Robot_City
Here is a video with some self-assembling robots. One robot
has managed to stack a second robot, which begins to move. Presumably
the footing they are working on top of, exists for environments which
lack gravity.
MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G94FDMGLwCc
Paul
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