Artificial Life
Xenobots and anthrobots are tiny living machines built from ordinary cells: xenobots from frog embryo cells, anthrobots from adult human airway cells. They swim using cilia, tiny beating hairs, and nobody edited their DNA to make them.
Artificial life is the study of lifelike behavior in simulation. These experiments combine the two: simulations based on what real biobots do.
Replication Arena →
Bots sweep loose cells into piles, and big enough piles become new bots.
Petri Ecology →
Several kinds of biobots attract and repel each other and form a moving community.
Morphospace Atlas →
A map of evolved soft bodies, each the most robust design found for how it turns and pushes things.
Anthrobot Lenia →
Continuous creatures whose cilia push along their rims. Do real motility classes emerge?
Neurobot Motion →
Neurobots move 'more complexly' than plain biobots. Change how motion is measured and watch the score change.
Growing Anthrobots →
One cell grows into a ciliated body that rolls and heals when cut. Its hidden signals foretell its shape.
The Rejuvenation Field →
Speculative: cells that weigh evidence of being in an embryo and wind back their clocks.
Biobot Tierra →
Self-replicating bots with invented ways to inherit. Which one first produces evolution?
Chip Archipelago →
Soft bodies and microfluidic chips evolve together. Do easier chips make better bodies for hard ones?