Robotic

My 2 cents: For robotic "life" to occur it will need its own sort of autonomy and adaptiveness. It can't simply be what it was programmed to be - or it's not really alive.

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... keeps running or at worse runs into a wall. Nowhere is Natural Selection factored into the simple four line computer program loop used to model a robotic kind of intelligence inherent in the genome memory mechanism. It can be argued that in the real world there would be selection pressures, which ...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-cellular_life Other than that, you might want to consider robotic forms of life such as nanobots which don't really exist yet. I think probably your teach was trying to prove a point.

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... trade expo held during International Nanotechnology Week October 3-4, Dallas, TX (PRWeb) December 13, 2006 -- Having been called a "stealth robotic invasion," the latest crop of MEMS and NEMS, coupled with a patented life-like artificial skin, are giving us machines that look and act ...

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... a referral in this patents a tissue carton box, that they are layered and as one pulls out the next one comes up, proof of multi film layering and robotic structures isn't, they used this at nano scale with metals and guess what if you put a magnet next to the beaker in the photo, the metal particles ...

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