Automaton models of reproduction by self-inspection.

There is a strategy by which an automaton can examine itself to obtain a complete description of its own constituent structure. This strategy is here employed to show that machine self-reproduction by means of selfinspection is possible. Since the parent automaton structure serves as the sole model for the structure of offspring, the result shows that there is a logically consistent strategy of self-reproduction in which any acquired structural characteristics of parent could perforce be transmitted to the offspring.