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I believe that the nanobots required to perform such a feat are at least several decades away, if not further. You're essentially trying to replicate what cell

I believe that the nanobots required to perform such a feat are at least several decades away, if not further. You're essentially trying to replicate what cells do in a growing embryo, and even with several billion years of evolution that is still a very very error-prone process.

lachlan-sneff 7y ago
You're right about the self-replicating part, that's probably very far away (and not necessary for this). But I think self-assembling nano-mechanisms are closer. We can already sort of do it with self-assembling dna mechanisms and, theoretically, those can bootstrap into more complex tech made out of better materials