Remember the Replicators from Stargate SG-1?
Metallic cubes that could assemble themselves into bugs then attack and kill people? Science fiction right? Wonder if anything like that could ever really happen? Probably not..... oh oh.
From an article in Scientific American...
Dynamically self-assembling robots would certainly be more versatile than those preassembled in a lab or factory. ... One approach to building such robots would be creating intelligent modules that could gather together, morphing into the shape laid out by their programming (picture the form-shifting T-1000 in Terminator 2).
Here's some video...
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"Or maybe you would fall into the bag and a new you would come out." Don't let Agnes find out...
I'm still waiting for my Jetsons car
The future sounds like it will be jam-packed with surprises. I should have gone into engineering.
Sort of like transformers.
Bilbo - Or you could have 3 or 4 more Agnes's.
Andrea - I think I saw an article on that too.
Angel - But then who would help people deal with all this crap.
Duck - That was one thing I never got into.
Time to welcome our new Replicators overlords.
Jay
Jay - All hail the little metal cubes.
I like those food replicators from Star Trek!
I'm all for it.
When we're ready for developing them, consider Huntsville.
Amanda - Mine doesn't work anymore and I'm having trouble finding a repair shop.
Elvis - Oh no you don't! You've got that space shuttle to... wait... nevermind.
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