Artificial life

“Music and the Spectacle of Artificial Life” examines how mechanical experiments since the Enlightenment have used music to explain, affirm, and challenge the relationship between the material body and immaterial mind. Since Descartes, natural philosophers and scientists have im…

Rapid prototyping tools exist in many fields of science and engineering, but are rare in biology especially not general tools that can handle the diversity and complexity of the many spatial and temporal scales in nature. In this thesis a general use, cell-based, middle-out biol…

The attempt to evolve complete embodied and situated artificial creatures in which both morphological and control characteristics are adapted during the evolutionary process has been and still represents a long term goal key for the artificial life and the evolutionary robotics …