With the daily advancements in these fields as well as others, I wonder how much longer it would be before; with sufficient grant funding of course to engineer nano devices that would go beyond repairing cells, but absorb the cell after it has either re-engineered it, or taken on its function.

This in turn would, or could cerate an entirely new organism. One that would not have the limitations of life as we know it today. These Neo-Bio-Cybernetic-Organisms would have longer life spans, better health and greater durability.

Imagine, life forms that would also be upgradeable. As better understanding of the technology and biology developed choices could be taken from across nature to improve the organism.

I have included examples from news articles of advancements in the fields of nano technology, computer sciences and engineering.

LONDON (Reuters) – Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves.

Each robot consists of several 10-cm (4 inch) cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach and detach to each other and a computer program for replication. The robots can bend and pick up and stack the cubes.

“Although the machines we have created are still simple compared with biological self-reproduction, they demonstrate that mechanical self-reproduction is possible and not unique to biology,” Hod Lipson said in a report in the science journal Nature on Wednesday.

He and his team believe the design principle could be used to make long term, self-repairing robots that could mend themselves and be used in hazardous situations and on space flights.

The experimental robots, which don’t do anything else except make copies of themselves, are powered through contacts on the surface of the table and transfer data through their faces. They self-replicate by using additional modules placed in special “feeding locations.”

The machines duplicate themselves by bending over and putting their top cube on the table. Then they bend again, pick up another cube, put it on top of the first and repeat the entire process. As the new robot begins to take shape it helps to build itself.

“The four-module robot was able to construct a replica in 2.5 minutes by lifting and assembling cubes from the feeding locations,” said Lipson.

Could this technique be used by the nano device to replicate itself? Four such devices of this kind could scan, repair then duplicate or replace either a living cell that was in place or generate a custom built stemcell that would lay dormant until activated as needed by the organism which would then after activation self-replicate normally as a part of the integrated biological whole.

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Mr. Darryl Starks

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