AI and robots can develop and fix themselves.

Today, AI starts to develop itself. But what if we were to take that ability to the physical systems? An even more interesting aspect is a “cannibal robot” that can collect spare parts and improve itself by utilizing another robot’s components. That means that the new robot can search for spare parts and improve parts from robot wrecks. That kind of thing is fundamental because it allows a physical robot to fix itself. AI-controlled robots that can collect spare parts from garbage and fix themselves will be the new tool for other planet research. The robot that can fix itself can also operate in remote areas on Earth. 

The AI that controls robots can make a checklist of what causes damage to the robot’s body. Then the robot can search for parts that can replace that weakness. If a robot requires a stronger shell, it just searches for plates that it can connect to its body. In the same way, if a robot requires more power, it can search for more servo-engines that can use its manipulators. The ability to search and benefit from raw materials from the environment makes robots more survivable and flexible. The AI develops itself in the same way as a robot that collects spare parts from its environment. 

AI is a computer program. And the computer program is a virtual robot. When AI develops its own code, it actually searches code models from the digital environment. In that case, the AI makes a model or matrix about things that it needs. Then the system will ask if there is some AI that has those abilities. Then the AI asks the code that gives the desired ability to the AI. The AI can also ask another AI to generate the code that it requires. And then the AI connects that code into itself. The problem is how the AI can detect things that it needs. And the second thing is that the AI must create the right form for the query that it makes for other AIs. 

The AI can also search things like internet databases about the code that it needs. And then generate that code in its code generator. In that case, there are two AIs: the first one that connects the code to another AI’s source code. Then the system boots another AI. And after that, the other AI makes the changes for the first AI’s source code and boots the system. The code also requires testing, and in that case, there must be at least two different systems. Because if there is a malfunction in the code, the other part of the system can operate without errors. That system can also remove malicious code from another system. But if there are no errors, the system can scale code changes through the entire system. 

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/24/cannibal-robot-scientists-develop-a-robot-that-can-grow-and-heal-by-eating-others

https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/watch-this-robot-cannibal-grow-bigger-and-stronger-by-consuming-smaller-robots

Microwaves are tools for the new recycling methods.

"This is an artistic representation of the depolymerization of aramid fibers. Credit: Dr. Dina Maniar, University of Groningen, edited." (ScitechDaily, Microwaves Unlock a Faster, Cleaner Way to Recycle Bulletproof Kevlar)

New materials require new recycling methods. Some of those methods can be suitable for weapon applications. 

Microwaves break the carbon chains in polymers. And that makes them dangerous. There are tested microwaves to destroy oil in oil damages. The microwave cuts the polymer structures. And the same systems can destroy diesel and petroleum in their storage. Things like graphene are ultimate materials but only if they can conduct energy out from them. If the energy transmitter surrounds the graphene structure and starts to send energy into its outer edge that thing causes a situation in which energy starts to travel in the middle of the graphene structure. 

In this case, the system creates a standing wave in the middle of the graphene structure. The energy level in the outer edge is higher than in the middle of the graphene, which denies the graphene's ability to remove energy from the structure. The problem with recycling is this: recycling means breaking the materials. 

Microwaves can destroy Kevlar and other carbon-based chemical structures. 

The new way to recycle bulletproof Kevlar can also give the possibility of breaking the Kevlar armor. In those systems, the microwave cuts the kevlar structure. There are tested microwaves on the battlefield whose purpose is to jam drone swarms. The same systems can destroy kevlar armor and other plastic structures like composite magazines and plastic structures in weapons. Kevlar is also structured in the super-hard ropes used to keep offshore oil platforms in their position. 

The microwave also heats metals. That means microwaves can detonate ammunition in boxes. It can affect large-scale entireties like drone swarms. The big drones are good targets for lasers and machine guns. However, the drone swarms of small-size drones require systems that can affect the entire swarm at one time. 

Kevlar is used in bulletproof vests and lightweight armor in light vehicles. The ability to break kevlar opens the route to the ammunition. And that is a big threat to the law enforcement and military operators. Kevlar is also part of the structural composite armor metal. Kevlar plates are layer over layer. The kevlar structure keeps different metals away from each other. In those structures, the harder and softer layers follow each other. 

The purpose of the softer structure is to pull impact energy and the harder structure breaks the ammunition.  And that makes composite armor more effective than traditional armor. The microwave system that impacts microwaves to the kevlar structures breaks the polymeric chains in that strong material. The microwaves can break the bulletproof vests and other armor. 

There are used polymer carbon chains. And that makes microwave systems effective tools. Also for boosting ammunition power. There are tested microwave systems whose mission is to jam the tank's counter-missile system detonate its reactive armor off the ammunition's road and heat the metal armor that offers the warhead a better way to penetrate the armor. 

https://scitechdaily.com/microwaves-unlock-a-faster-cleaner-way-to-recycle-bulletproof-kevlar/