When electronic components bite the dust, there's very little you can do. Unlike a leaky pipe or broken piece of plastic, it's not like you can tear off a piece of duct tape and fix a cracked or failed microchip. Best case scenario is you replace it, but if it's an integrated part or a discontinued chip, you might have to replace the whole device. Bummer. But what if a chip could heal itself?

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Two problems.

1) micro-circuits grow metal crystals inside chips. When they connect two links inside the chip that are supposed to be separate, short circuit. I don't see how they would repair itself.

2) if a robot has plans in itself so it can repair itself... the plans would need to be modifiable so the robot could tracks the repairs. But if the repair plans are modified, how does the robot know it wasn't a cosmic ray, etc. that damaged the plans, not a repair made note of ?

I read this. what a hoot , huh ?