Freitas was born inCamden, Maine. His father worked in agriculture and his mother was a homemaker. Freitas married Nancy, hischildhood sweetheart in 1974.[1]
Figure 5.29.— proposed demonstration of simple robot self-replication in "Advanced Automation for Space Missions"
Freitas introduced the concept of "sentience quotient" in the late 1970s.[6]
In 1980, Freitas and William Gilbreath were participants in a NASA study regarding "Advanced Automation for Space Missions",[7] and they presented the feasibility of self-replicating machines in space, using advanced artificial intelligence and automation technologies.[8][9]
Freitas began writing hisNanomedicine book series in 1994.[10] Volume I, published in October 1999 byLandes Bioscience while Freitas was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. Volume IIA was published in October 2003 by Landes Bioscience.[11]
In 2004, Freitas andRalph Merkle coauthored and publishedKinematic Self-Replicating Machines, a comprehensive survey of the field of physical and hypotheticalself-replicating machines.[12]
^Andrew, Alex M. (2000). "NANOMEDICINE, VOLUME 1: BASIC CAPABILITIES, by Robert A. Freitas Jr., Landes Bioscience, Austin, Texas, 1999, xxi + 509 pp., ISBN 1-57059-645-X Index".Robotica.18 (6). Cambridge University Press (CUP):687–689.doi:10.1017/s0263574700212824.ISSN0263-5747.
Robert A. Freitas Jr., Nanomedicine: Biocompatibility (S Karger Pub, 2004)ISBN3-8055-7722-2
Robert A. Freitas Jr., Cryostasis Revival: The Recovery of Cryonics Patients through Nanomedicine (Alcor Life Extension Foundation, 2022)ISBN978-0-9968153-5-2
