Portable factories

Curt Welch wrote:

Humans who can self-reproduce with only the addition of food, have a huge
survival advantage over robots that require a whole working industry to
keep themselves alive and maintained and reproduce.

Actually the constraint that we must carry our own factories with
us in small mobile container is a /huge/ limitation, that severely
constrains the available manufacturing potential, and cripples
our potential.
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