Self-replicating robots just around the corner?

Now all it needs is a way to power itself, random mutations in the reproduction process, and a few billion years.

Looking at this reminds me of bacteria or protozoa. Right now it might just be simple division, but reproduction is one of the simple criteria for deciding if something is alive or not. There are already robots that "eat" which is another criteria. I wonder if I'll see real artificial life (not intelligent life, just artificial) in my lifetime.

I agree. The action in the video seems more like movement than replication.

The thing that makes it reproduction is that it takes pieces from it's environment to build copies of itself. If you notice it build exact replica's of it's self from the blocks. Now shrink it to nano size and change each block to carbon molecules and you can see why books like Prey by Crichton are so scary.

Love that grey goo.