DARPA is funding methods of getting separate components to self-assemble and
form larger satellites and also self-assemble to form robotic rovers:
How Tiny 'SuperBots' Will Create Cheap, Modular Satellites.
BY SOPHIA STUART JANUARY 14, 2015 1 COMMENT
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2475070,00.asp
Bob Clark
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"Robert Clark" wrote in message ...
You may be thinking of self-reproducing which is different from
self-assembly. Self-assembly can be done at the macroscale. Considering the
advances in nanoscale devices it should be doable at the nanoscale.
Bob Clark
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Finally, nanotechnology can now fulfill its potential to revolutionize
21st-century technology, from the space elevator, to private, orbital
launchers, to 'flying cars'.
This crowdfunding campaign is to prove it:
Nanotech: from air to space.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/n...ce/x/13319568/
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"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message
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On 22.05.16 22:48, Robert Clark wrote:
Suppose we made the probes at the virus or bacteria scale then used
self-assembly to form a macroscale spacecraft say size of Mars Pathfinder.
Then we might only need a ground laser of currently existing size, say a
few
hundred kilowatts, to send multiple nanoscale components to relativistic
speeds.
Know of references for doing self-assembly with components at the
nanoscale?
Bob Clark
You think that you can put a computer/assembly line inside
a nano particle?
Please show us how.
It should be able to go after raw material in space,which
needs oodles of energy.
What useful amount of energy can you store in a nano particle?
Where does the particle get the ions to to travel millions of miles?
I think a minimal self-reproducing craft would weight several tons,
and be anything but small.
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