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Since nanobots are themselves long chains of atoms, they can self produce their next generation.
In I-World’s industry complex, there is nanobot self-replicating department where all kinds of nanobots are produced. Inside this department, there are several compartments, each of which contributes to the nanobot creating process. The first compartment is called “ constructing”. In the same manner as what happens in a chemical reactor at the material-manufacturing center, here, individual atoms and nanobots are introduced to the compartments and the nanobots, as usual, do their job of attaching and combining atoms to make molecules. There are two divisions within this important compartment. One is devoted to making constructing and detecting arms while the other is for making the body. The body is carefully designed and constructed so that it serves as a nanobot’s processor. This so-called processor is, in fact, a quantum computer. Quantum computer is a powerful computing device whose speed is billions of times faster than its classical counterpart. It can store extremely large amount of information and proceeds them simultaneously in a faction of second whereas a classical computer may unable to achieve. The next compartment is called “fusing” or “stirring”. This is where the arms and the body unite. The fusion occurs only when one end of the arm comes close enough to one of the body’s ends. This union is stimulated by motorized paddles built inside the compartment with water as solvent. After all nanobots take their final shape, they are collected and ready for use. Before being distributed to other places where they are needed, nanobots have to pass a final compartment called “programming” where they are wirelessly programmed.
There are situations in which nanobots “grow” or “mutate”. This happens as a consequence of repairing dead nanobots. A nanobot that is dead when its active site is either deformed or broken from the arm. To be repaired, the nanobot is returned to the “fusing” compartment. Here, it again unites with a new body to become a “double-body” nanobot. This “growth” or “mutation” is useful in some way. These new kinds of nanobots involve in difficult tasks such as constructing complicated molecular structures or sometimes simply serve as high-speed nanobots since they have more “heads”.
When these “multiple-body” nanobots reach a certain size, they are broken into individual atoms by heating at high temperature to break chemical bonds. These atoms will be collected and reused later.
UGLY FACT OR STUCK DESIGN:
I have been stuck since Spring Break on the design of a self-replicating robot. I-World is a robot-ruled kingdom. In fact, the world and its residents (the robots) are the scenario of future human living that I can imagine to answer the course’s question “Where will we live in future?”. So, logically, the robot self-replicating design should take more space in my overall design. However, practically, it seems that all interesting factors lie in the robot components and not in the self-replicating process. Since robots in I-World are, in nature, autonomous, they can self-replicate themselves by simply entering a stockroom, picking the parts and building just like a baby playing with his/her toys. Then my project sounds like “my self-replicating robot design is that the robot builds its own image” and no more. Hope that I can introduce you something new about this next week!