"The concept of zero mass exploration is rooted in self-replicating machines, an engineering concept John von Neumann conceived in the 1940s", says Kenneth C. Cheung, a NASA Ames researcher.
The technology of reprogrammable metamaterials [has] advanced to the point where we can start thinking about things like that. It can't make everything we need yet, but it can make a really big chunk of what we need," says Christine E. Gregg, a NASA Ames researcher.
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