Back المركبات الفضائية ذاتية التناسخ Arabic Von-Neumann-Sonde German Self-replicating spacecraft English Nave espacial autorreplicante Spanish Neumann-szonda Hungarian 自己複製宇宙機 Japanese Sonda von Neumanna Polish Sonda de Von Neumann Portuguese Зонд фон Неймана Russian
Self-replicating spacecrafts, or Von-Neumann probes, are self-replicating machines.
Hypothetically, they might one day exist. They would do it by removing material from asteroids, comets, planets etc to make more of themselves. The idea has figured in some space fiction writing, including 2001: A Space Odyssey.
