Adjective
self-replicating (not comparable)
Able to generate a copy of itself.
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. K. Eric Drexler
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance. Ralph Merkle
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. Bernard M. Oliver
Also in 2004, Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle coauthored and published Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, the first complete survey of the field of physical and hypothetical self-replicating machines. Source: Internet
An automated factory that produced robots designed to construct more factories would constitute a clanking replicator A clanking replicator is an artificial self-replicating system that relies on conventional large-scale technology and automation. Source: Internet
Any self-replicating mechanism which does not make a perfect copy will experience genetic variation and will create variants of itself. Source: Internet