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From Fumiya Iida:
THE PACE website: Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution http://134.147.93.66/bmcmyp/Data/PACE/Public
Also, possible some interesting ideas as this develops: International Conference on Morphological Computation http://www.morphcomp.org
The Stanford Prison Experiment. http://www.prisonexp.org/index.html http://www.prisonexp.org/epilogue.htm
The Salt Mines at Wieliczka, Poland http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/ice/lec14/wielicz.htm http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/saltmine.html
Bioltechnology artists working with human and other cells Ethics http://www.bioteknica.org/index2.html
Critical Art Ensemble web site http://www.critical-art.net/
Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund http://www.caedefensefund.org/
Living camera uses bacteria to capture image http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007510.php
Interactive Architecture http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/interactive-architecture-eyebeam-new-york.html
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman http://www.lynnhershman.com/
M.I.T. - Planetary and Space Colonization http://web.mit.edu/roshanak/www/colonization.htm
Habitat On Other Planets http://www.freeformconstruction.co.uk/offworld.htm
Cornell researchers build a robot that can reproduce
http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/research/selfrep/
Robots and Protein Kinematics Lab, Johns Hopkins University http://custer.me.jhu.edu/ http://custer.me.jhu.edu/research/self_replicating.html
NASA and Self-Replicating Systems http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepNASA.html
The Machine that Can Copy Anyithing http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html
Self-Replication and Nanotechnology http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRep.html Self Replicating Machines:Visual images in nanotechnology http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/visuals.html
RepRap?, Replicating Rapid-prototyper http://reprapdoc.voodoo.co.nz/bin/view/Main/WebHome Mimicking social insect building http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab/B-man/
Architectural Considerations for Self-replicating Manufacturing Systems Foresight Nanotech Institute http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/Papers/Hall/index.html
Self-Replication and Pathways to Molecular Nanotechnology http://www.imm.org/Reports/Rep021.html
Rossum's Universal Robots Summary: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/RUR/index.html Play: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/R.U.R._%28Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots%29
Ericson Mar's Robotics Home Page: http://www.cooper.edu/~mar
Ericson Mar's Robotics Links: http://www.cooper.edu/~mar/robotics_links.htm
"Extreme Textiles", an exhibit that was shown at the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design in 2005: http://ndm.si.edu/EXHIBITIONS/extreme_textiles/index.asp
Earthship Biotecture, I thought it might be of use from the standpoint of creating self-sustaining and sustainable habitats that do not require prior infrastucture. http://www.earthship.org/
The Website of Robert A. Freitas Jr. It has a number of links to books on nanotechnology, self-replication, etc: http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/TerraformSRS1983.htm
Fab Tree Hab, A living habitat designed by MIT: http://www.archinode.com/bienal.html
Island One Society (links to off-Earth colonization topics): http://www.islandone.org/
Orion's Arm (or "OA" for short) is an online science fiction world-building project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion's_Arm (copy and paste this URL...the wiki doesn't like the apostrophy)
http://www.orionsarm.com/
History Timeline of Robotics http://trueforce.com/Articles/Robot_History.htm
Shear Thickening Fluid (Fabric technology that hardens on impact) http://www.ccm.udel.edu/STF/pubs1.html
SuperBot? (Reconfigurable robot made out of identical links) http://www.isi.edu/news/news.php?story=160
SwarmBot?: Self-Assembling Robots for Planetary Precolonization http://www.physorg.com/news91372110.html
Jump Rope Robot http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/28/omnizero-4-bot-performs-amazing-feats-of-strength-rope-jumping/