Elon Musk says Optimus humanoid robot could build civilizations on distant planets amid SpaceX's plans to launch 1TW of AI compute per year.

Zaza Osmanov, a physics professor at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, wants to find mischievous, self-replicating probes built by a hyper-advanced alien civilization. “The self-replication ...

It has been argued that self-replicating robotic probes could spread to all stars of our galaxy within a timespan that is tiny on cosmological scales, even if they travel well below the speed of light ...

Inspiration for space exploration can come from all corners. One of the most inspiring, or terrifying, sources of inspiration for some in space exploration came from computer science expert John von ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been making headlines by claiming that Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot is on track to become the world’s first “Von Neumann machine”. The core idea ...

A new radio telescope in China might be able to detect massive swarms of self-replicating alien robots before they attack Earth. Dr. Zaza Osmanov, an associate physics professor at the Free University ...

The article on the power of biological computers as self-replicating, low-energy systems, capable of computation and problem solving, brought to mind von Neumann probes (10 June, p 36). These are ...