artificial life
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of artificial life
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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Similarly, he envisions such artificial life forms can act as vaccines against viral infection and can be used as nanorobots or nanomachines loaded with medication or diagnostic elements and sent into a patient's body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
This is what I and my colleague and artificial life expert Olaf Witkowski have recently explored.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
Three adults were tucked into hospital beds, still and apparently asleep, with ventilators and other machines of artificial life doing the work that their bodies couldn’t do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Attention to this case isn’t surprising: A century of science fiction should be enough to demonstrate that we’re fascinated by the prospect of creating true artificial life.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2022
The artificial life force animating them seemed to fail if pressed too far...at least in some of them.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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