Artificial Life

Definitions

Christopher G. Langton:

Artificial Life is a field of study devoted to understanding life by attempting to abstract the fundamental dynamical principles underlying biological phenomena, and recreating these dynamics in other physical media -- such as computers -- making them accessible to new kinds of experimental manipulation and testing.

Simulators

• Gazebo
• PyBullet

Biodiversity

• Why we should care about biodiversity (Earlham Institute)