If emotion functions as an operating system of silicon-based life, its implications extend far beyond robots. It defines not a feature category, but a new computing paradigm: any device that senses, ...

In the admittedly futuristic discipline of simulated artificial life form, or animat, research, BabyX is perhaps the most ambitious project to date. Its creator, Mark Sagar, has chosen no less a goal ...

Life as we know it is carbon-based, but does it have to be this way? There’s another element on the periodic table that shares some of the key properties of carbon but is far more abundant on most ...