Editing Replicator (Star Trek) (section)

==In the real world==
[[File:Revo Foods-THE-FILET-06-printer.jpg|thumb|upright|A plant-based salmon alternative being produced in a [[3D food printer]] from Austrian company Revo Foods]]
In 2014, researchers at [[Nestlé]] were reported as working on technology comparable to the replicator, with the goal of providing food tailored to an individual's nutritional requirements.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27996163|title=Nestle plans to create 'Star Trek-like food replicator'|date=24 June 2014|publisher=BBC}}</ref>

[[Imperial College London]] physicists have discovered how to [[Breit–Wheeler process|create matter from light]] — a feat thought impossible when the idea was first hypothesized in the 1930s. In just one day in Imperial's Blackett Physics Laboratory, three physicists worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first devised by scientists Breit and Wheeler in 1934.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html|title = Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest}}</ref>

BeeHex, an Ohio startup company, received a grant in 2013 from NASA intended for developing long-spaceflight food 3D printing technology. They now build food printing robots for eventual public use.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasafunded-3d-pizza-printer-now-works-at-tourist-attractions/|title = NASA-Funded 3D Pizza Printer Now Works at Tourist Attractions| date=11 August 2016 }}</ref>

Cemvita Factory Inc., a biotech startup based in Houston, TX, is also developing a photobioreactor that converts carbon dioxide that's captured from air along with hydrogen from hydrolyzing water to nutrients and pharmaceutics.<ref name="CemVita">{{cite web |title=Deep Technology Based on Cognitive Chemistry |url=https://www.cemvitafactory.com/ |website=www.cemvitafactory.com |access-date=March 4, 2019}}</ref><ref name="CemVita-YT">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/RZb-AgjtnWM Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200420230356/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZb-AgjtnWM&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |title=Cemvita Factory NASA iTech - Moji Karimi |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZb-AgjtnWM |publisher=CemVita Factory Inc. |access-date=March 4, 2019 |format=video |date=September 1, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="CemVita-Forbes">{{cite web |last1=Tonar |first1=Ellis Talton and Remington |title=Space Tech Startups Are The Key To Making Life On Mars Possible |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellistalton/2018/09/21/space-tech-startups-are-the-key-to-making-life-on-mars-possible/ |work=[[Forbes]] |access-date=March 4, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>