{"id":237649,"date":"2026-05-23T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/where-are-all-the-alien-robots-the-chilling-idea-of-von-neumann-probes"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:04:35","slug":"where-are-all-the-alien-robots-the-chilling-idea-of-von-neumann-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/where-are-all-the-alien-robots-the-chilling-idea-of-von-neumann-probes","title":{"rendered":"Where Are All The Alien Robots? The Chilling Idea Of Von Neumann Probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHMIv_zAbrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you know, I\u2019m obsessed about the Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? But an even stranger question is: where are all the robot aliens?<\/p>\n<p>Support us at: \/ universetoday.<br \/> More stories at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/\">http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/<\/a><br \/> Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/universetoday\">@universetoday<\/a>.<br \/> Follow us on Tumblr: \/ universetoday.<br \/> Like us on Facebook: \/ universetoday.<br \/> Google+ \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+universetoday\/\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+universetoday\/<\/a><br \/> Instagram \u2014 \/ universetoday.<\/p>\n<p>Team: Fraser Cain \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fcain\">@fcain<\/a> \/ <a href=\"mailto:frasercain@gmail.com.\">frasercain@gmail.com.<\/a><br \/> Jason Harmer \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasoncharmer\">@jasoncharmer<\/a>.<br \/> Chad Weber \u2014 <a href=\"mailto:weber.chad@gmail.com.\">weber.chad@gmail.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer.<br \/> Edited by: Chad Weber.<br \/> Music: Left Spine Down \u2014 \u201cX-Ray\u201d<br \/> \u2022 Left Spine Down \u2014 Side Effect (new track 2\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen at least one other episode of the Guide to Space, you know I\u2019m obsessed about the Fermi Paradox. This idea that the Universe is big and old, and should be teeming with life. And yet, we have no evidence that it exists out there.<\/p>\n<p>We wonder, where are all the aliens?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/where-are-all-the-alien-robots-the-chilling-idea-of-von-neumann-probes\">Continue reading \u201cWhere Are All The Alien Robots? The Chilling Idea Of Von Neumann Probes\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, I\u2019m obsessed about the Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? But an even stranger question is: where are all the robot aliens? Support us at: \/ universetoday. More stories at: http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday. Follow us on Tumblr: \/ universetoday. Like us on Facebook: \/ universetoday. Google+ \u2014 https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+universetoday\/ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}