Research:
Self replication: More information

Freitas R.A, Merkle R.C. (2004) Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, Landes Bioscience

M. Sipper and J. A. Reggia, Go forth and replicate, Scientific American, vol. 285, no. 2, pp. 26-35, August 2001

Yim, M. H.; Zhang, Y.; Duff, D. G. Modular robots. IEEE Spectrum. 2002 February; 39(2): 30-34.

Some related work and web sites

The Artificial Self Replication Web Page

Chirikjian's Self replicating robots

Penrose's Self replicating machines

Rus Robotics Laboratory

Mark Yim's Modular Robotics

Wei-Min Shen's Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory

Satoshi Murata's modular robotics

NASA Evolvable Systems Group

Ethics and concerns of self-replication technologies

Revised: November 11, 2006 .