Scientific Blogging has an extremely interesting article that, after a SoSF fan (Matt in Michigan) sent it to me, made me sit up and take serious notice. My first thought was – “OMG! We’re making replicants!”
It would seem that a senior researcher at the University of Bath has created a device, the replicating rapid-prototyper, dubbed the RepRap, (quite possibly an idea stolen from those hairless aliens from Stargate). It is an open source prototype machine that has succeeded in making a duplicate of itself – by printing its own parts and building a clone.
To learn more about RepRap visit the Scientific Blogging news page.
Humans, you are no longer needed.
You may go now.