SPORE

These are stills from a film entitled Spore.  A boy witnesses the falling of a meteorite that he seeks out.  When he finds the tiny rock, he brings it home to discover that it’s actually a machine.

A von Neumann probe is a spacecraft capable of replicating itself. The concept is named after Hungarian American mathematician and physicist John von Neumann, who rigorously studied the concept of self-replicating machines that he called “Universal Assemblers” and which are often referred to as “von Neumann machines“. (WIKIPEDIA COPY PASTA)