Tim Taylor | Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 1), Lionel Penrose, 1958 @drtimt | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Demonstrations of Lionel Penrose's early explorations of mechanical self-replication using cleverly designed wooden units. This film was produced in 1958 by H.A. Cresswell. Further information can be found in Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin's book "Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve", Springer, 2020 -- see book details at tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook
The other film in this series, Part 2 (filmed in 1961), can be found at youtu.be/hQ6T_TY3JA4
Demonstrations of Lionel Penrose's early explorations of mechanical self-replication using cleverly designed wooden units. This film was produced in 1958 by H.A. Cresswell. Further information can be found in Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin's book "Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve", Springer, 2020 -- see book details at tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook
The other film in this series, Part 2 (filmed in 1961), can be found at youtu.be/hQ6T_TY3JA4
