Artificial life (ALife) Soft Computing; Robotics
noun phrase
Definition: A field of research that studies life and lifelike processes by synthesizing, simulating, or constructing artificial systems in software, hardware, or biochemical media in order to understand the principles of living systems [Manca 2024].
Example in context: “Artificial Life (ALife) has been developed in recent decades to study life using a synthetic approach: Build it to understand it.” [Dwivedi et al. 2025]
Synonyms: ALife; A-Life
Related terms: synthetic life; complex adaptive systems; artificial societies; evolutionary systems; swarm intelligence