XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-21 23:37, Paul wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   Curious. To me, the link displayed in red. Still, does, says the link   
   does not exist when hovering. When clicked, it says instead that there   
   is a draft.   
      
   >   
   > 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   
      
   Curious.   
      
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