Hi,
Prof. Rechenberg presents Penrose mechanism in one of his lectures on self-replicating machines
(in german). See:
http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/institut/skript/B1Fol11.ppt
slides 27-29.
Ivan
Dr R.J.Wootton wrote:
> Hi, Adrian,
>
> Have the self-replicating machines of the great Prof
> Penrose fallen out of folk memory, or are they much-quoted
> classics? They were made of plywood, and he supplied the
> necessary energy by shaking them in a tray. I remember him
> demonstrating them to delighted audiences when I was an
> undergraduate in the late 1950s. He was then Professor of
> Eugenics (!) at UCL, in the School of Biometry, Genetics
> and Eugenics headed by JBS Haldane. He did a Scientific
> American article on them, probably about 1960; I don't have
> the reference handy.
>
> Robin
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:08:55 +0000 Adrian Bowyer
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>>Interest in our project to make a self-replicating machine is growing (see
>>http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ensab/replicator/). After discussions with Julian, I
>>have put an entry on that website to direct people who want to talk about the
>>project to our list. If traffic gets too heavy (I should be so lucky...), then
>>we might bud it off to another list, depending on how people feel.
>>
>>Best wishes
>>
>>Adrian
>>
>>http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab
>
>
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