人工生命于1993年秋季啟動(dòng)，通過使用計(jì)算（軟件）、機(jī)器人（硬件）和/或物理化學(xué)（濕器）等工具進(jìn)行綜合或模擬，已成為交流有關(guān)顯示自然生命系統(tǒng)行為特征的人工系統(tǒng)研究的科學(xué)信息的統(tǒng)一論壇。每一期都以對人工生命的前沿研究為特色，這些研究提高了我們對生活系統(tǒng)各個(gè)方面的知識(shí)水平，例如：人工化學(xué)與生命起源自我組裝、成長和發(fā)展自我復(fù)制和自我修復(fù)系統(tǒng)與合成生物學(xué)感知、認(rèn)知和行為體現(xiàn)和實(shí)施主義群體的集體行為進(jìn)化與生態(tài)動(dòng)力學(xué)開放性和創(chuàng)造性社會(huì)組織與文化演變社會(huì)和技術(shù)影響哲學(xué)與美學(xué)生物學(xué)、醫(yī)學(xué)、商業(yè)、教育或娛樂的應(yīng)用這本雜志塑造并記錄了人造生命的發(fā)展，將生物學(xué)研究的視野擴(kuò)展到我們所知的生命之外，并盡可能地?cái)U(kuò)展到生命的領(lǐng)域。

Artificial Life, launched in the fall of 1993, has become the unifying forum for the exchange of scientific information on the study of artificial systems that exhibit the behavioral characteristics of natural living systems, through the synthesis or simulation using computational (software), robotic (hardware), and/or physicochemical (wetware) means. Each issue features cutting-edge research on artificial life that advances the state-of-the-art of our knowledge about various aspects of living systems such as:Artificial chemistry and the origins of lifeSelf-assembly, growth, and developmentSelf-replication and self-repairSystems and synthetic biologyPerception, cognition, and behaviorEmbodiment and enactivismCollective behaviors of swarmsEvolutionary and ecological dynamicsOpen-endedness and creativitySocial organization and cultural evolutionSocietal and technological implicationsPhilosophy and aestheticsApplications to biology, medicine, business, education, or entertainmentThe journal shapes and chronicles the development of artificial life, extending the horizons of biological research beyond life-as-we-know-it and into the domain of life-as-it-could-be.