Really impressive but what happens when the 'ASIC' breaks?

Sweet, now the Terminators won't care when you shoot them...

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There's undoubtedly some limit beyond which damage can't be fixed. After all, your body self repairs but has a limit, too. And error-correcting techniques like check sums don't confer invulnerability, either. They just make the chance of failure much smaller. Failing at some finite number of faults, even if it's small, is a whole lot better than "one."

One small step for autonomous robots in far-away places. I

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Really impressive but what happens when the 'ASIC' breaks?

Build in redundancies, like voting logic.

Sweet, now the Terminators won't care when you shoot them...

You said it, Axemaster... the future robot overlords just got a lot harder to kill! We're walking right into it! (Half kidding, though, because I think this is great stuff for deployed sensors/satellites/spacecraft etc.)

Would this be applicable for EMP warfare/solar flares? If I understand correctly, the induced surges primarily damage the input stages of chip due to the antenna like traces/wires.
Thoughts anyone?

Would this be applicable for EMP warfare/solar flares? If I understand correctly, the induced surges primarily damage the input stages of chip due to the antenna like traces/wires.
Thoughts anyone?

Yes it can help and in fact this technology is an offshoot of military technology that has been around for some time now. Its primary function was as a smart airframe resistant to battle damage. In the lab it was tested with extreme success and if even a hair line width is left between damaged sections it still can pass multiple signal paths to other sections self correcting to the shortest route.

Terminator!!! Jk, this is excellent news for robots that are sent on missions to other planets.

If the algorithms can be expanded to be whole system wide then the future for damaged satelites and shot up robots to continue on to their objectives is looking brighter. More reality chasing SiFi: We've all see Arnie repairing himself.