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Freeform tissue engineering doesn't seem like it's leading anywhere profound? Imagine using autologous xenobots (homobots?) as a drug delivery mechanism for hu
by Teever 5y ago
Freeform tissue engineering doesn't seem like it's leading anywhere profound?
Imagine using autologous xenobots (homobots?) as a drug delivery mechanism for humans.
> I wonder if they could impose arbitrary logic, and implement something like Conway's game of life? Seems like you'd need a predictable algorithmic framework in order to achieve anything useful with it.
Exactly. When I look at these xenobots I see a prototype for programmable matter. Imagine using these kinds of things to run programs where the output of the programs isn't shifting bits in a CPU but shifting molecules in a substrate.
You could use these for autonomous manufacturing from the microscale and up.
- ronyclau 5y agoLet's hope we can someday program it to find the answer to life, the universe and everything, and subsequently the ultimate question, just so we can render all philosophers jobless.