Is artificial life moving any closer?

Moving closer to the movement

Robots Moving Closer to Humans

the PRISMA Lab in the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering at University of Naples Federico II. He is the Past-President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Professor Bruno Siciliano is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME and IFAC. His research interests include force and visual control, human-robot interaction and service robotics. He has co-authored 7 books, 70 journal papers and 170 co...

What Is Artificial about Life?

The announcement of "Artificial Life" by the Craig Venter group, and the media stir that arose from the news, provoked thoughts about the current technologies in contemporary science and the cultural tension of such projections on the media. The increasingly blurred boundaries between specialist and generalist media, while promising a wider appreciation of scientific discovery, potentially allo...

Artificial Life 3 Artificial Life

Artificial Life is the study of all phenomena of the living world through their reproduction in artificial systems. We argue that Artificial Life models of evolution and development offer a new set of theoretical and methodological tools for investigating Piaget's ideas. The concept of an Artificial Life Neural Network (ALNN) is first introduced, and contrasted with the study of other recent ap...

A Closer Look to Artificial Learning Environments

The so-called Intelligent Tutoring Systems evolved in the past five years to Intelligent Learning Environments. This shift was supported by the stronger role of software agents and the possible ways they can be used to promote human learning. The aim of this paper is to explore further on one possible style of formalization taking now a point of view from DAI in stead of AI and Education: a cla...