Artificial life

field of study

hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario

Xenobots, named after the clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues. There is debate among scientists whether xenobots are robots, organisms, or something else entirely.

type of computational models

two-dimensional Turing machine with emergent behavior

device able to make copies of itself

planned partially synthetic species of bacterium

hypothetical spacecraft concept

thumb|Boids example Boids is an artificial life program, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to a bird-like object, as well as referencing the stereotypical New York pronunciation of 'bird' as . Reynolds' boid model is one example of a larger general concept, for which many other variations have been developed since. The closely related wo

computer simulation of life by the ecologist Thomas S. Ray

self-replicating computer program that mutates and evolves

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The creation of new life by other than the natural means available to an organism

collection of chemical entities

thought experiment in evolutionary science

artificial life software platform

1990s artificial life game series

self-reproducing patterns in a particular cellular automaton rule, investigated in 1984 by Christopher Langton

a self-replicating pattern in a cellular automaton, designed by John von Neumann