附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-311) and index.
The concept of self-replicating machines -- Classical theory of machine replication -- Macroscale kinematic machine replicators -- Microscale and molecular kinematic machine replicators -- Issues in kinematic machine replication engineering -- Motivations for molecular-scale machine replicator design.
摘要:This book offers a general review of the voluminous theoretical and experimental literature pertaining to physical self-replicating systems. The principal focus here is on self-replicating machine systems. Most importantly, we are concerned with kinematic self-replicating machines: systems in which actual physical objects, not mere patterns of information, undertake their own replication.
