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artificial life

American  

noun

  1. the simulation of any aspect of life, as through computers, robotics, or biochemistry.


artificial life Scientific  
  1. The simulation of biological phenomena through the use of computer models and robotics.


Etymology

Origin of artificial life

First recorded in 1990–95

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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

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

Even if open-ended evolution is the last lingering box to check off for creating artificial life, the community’s efforts may be doomed, says Stuart Kauffman, a biochemist at the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle.

From Scientific American Apr. 6, 2023

On one hand there is a nine-to-five job you don’t like and a totally artificial life.

From New York Times Sep. 30, 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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