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It is a long-term goal of some engineering sciences to achieve a clanking replicator, a material device that can self-replicate. The usual reason is to achieve a low cost per item while retaining the utility of a manufactured good. Many authorities say that in the limit, the cost of self-replicating items should approach the cost-per-weight of wood or other biological substances, because self-replication avoids the costs of labor, capital and distribution in conventional manufactured goods. The Enterprise-D's replicators were used to provide blankets to a Bajoran refugee camp. ( TNG: " Ensign Ro") In the Voyager episode " State of Flux", how the Kazon aliens obtain the technology from the USS Voyager, is a major plot point in the episode. [7] Replicators, or at least the Cardassian replicators on Deep Space 9, needed to be shut down weekly for routine maintenance. ( DS9: " Heart of Stone")

They note that Captain Picard's favorite beverage, Earl Grey tea, is created by the replicator, and the character often states "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" during the television show. [14] The beverage is then seen being produced in the replicator with a special visual and sound effect. [14] See also [ edit ]

a b von Neumann, John; Burks, Arthur W. (1966), Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. (Scanned book online), University of Illinois Press , retrieved 2017-02-28 Hod Lipson ( Cornell University), "Autonomous Self-Extending Machines for Accelerating Space Exploration" [34] Exceptions to this pattern may be possible, although none have yet been achieved. For example, scientists have come close to constructing RNA that can be copied in an "environment" that is a solution of RNA monomers and transcriptase. In this case, the body is the genome, and the specialized copy mechanisms are external. The requirement for an outside copy mechanism has not yet been overcome, and such systems are more accurately characterized as "assisted replication" than "self-replication". Nonetheless, in March 2021, researchers reported evidence suggesting that a preliminary form of transfer RNA could have been a replicator molecule itself in the very early development of life, or abiogenesis. [3] [4] Toth-Fejel, Tihamer; Robert Freitas; Matt Moses (2004-04-30). "Modeling Kinematic Cellular Automata" (PDF) . Retrieved 2007-01-04.

Nanotechnologists in particular believe that their work will likely fail to reach a state of maturity until human beings design a self-replicating assembler of nanometer dimensions. [1] In 2011, a team of scientists at New York University created a structure called 'BTX' (bent triple helix) based around three double helix molecules, each made from a short strand of DNA. Treating each group of three double-helices as a code letter, they can (in principle) build up self-replicating structures that encode large quantities of information. [44] [45] Self-replication of magnetic polymers [ edit ] Romulan replicators left distinctive patterns in the molecular structure of items they produced. ( TNG: " The Mind's Eye") Arbib, Michael A. (1974). Cyril Ponnamperuma, A. G. W. Cameron (ed.). The Likelihood of the Evolution of Communicating Intelligences on Other Planets. pp.59–78. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)Self-assembling systems assemble copies of themselves from finished, delivered parts. Simple examples of such systems have been demonstrated at the macro scale. Replicator (evolution unit), the theoretical basic unit of evolution in the gene-centered view of evolution