Self-replicating machines in fiction

"Self-replicating machines in fiction". Wikipedia article.

Covers self-replicating machines as "a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature. Such machines are often featured in works of science fiction."[1] And the article goes on to discuss at least briefly a large number of such devices in works relevant for (and often covered in) Clockworks 2.

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