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You could probably get it off the ground a lot faster if you lost the self-replicating requirement. (Self-replication / self organization is super cool and a re
by lend000 9y ago
You could probably get it off the ground a lot faster if you lost the self-replicating requirement. (Self-replication / self organization is super cool and a research field of mine, but still a ways away from production).
Just make a lot of them to start with and clean them up when/if they're done. Or make them biodegradable.
- carapace 9y agoThe swarm is self-replicating, not each individual bot. (Have you ever read Alan Dean Foster's "Sentenced to Prism" (sic)?) The system is more like an ant nest. Self-replication is required to be able to make a lot of them in a reasonable amount of time. Once the bulk of the plastic has been sequestered excess robots will be glued together to make a floating island. There's no "done" state until/unless we stop throwing non-biodegradable matter into the Oceans.