Living Machines

The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems. In collaboration with Living Machines 2024, this collection brings together multidisciplinary research on biomimetic, bioinspired, and biohybrid systems. Within this theme of Living Machines, this Collection seeks to encompass research in biomimetic robots, biomimetic computers, active biomimetic materials and structures, artificial organs, intelligent prostheses, plant-hybrid devices, tissue-engineered biohybrids, organism-level biohybrids, control principles for embodied perception, cognition, and action, synthetic biology, and synthetic consciousness. Additionally, research in biomimetic methods of manufacture, repair, and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis, and metamorphosis is encouraged. The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems. In collaboration with Living Machines 2024, this collection brings together multidisciplinary research on biomimetic, bioinspired, and biohybrid systems. Within this theme of Living Machines, this Collection seeks to encompass research in biomimetic robots, biomimetic computers, active biomimetic materials and structures, artificial organs, intelligent prostheses, plant-hybrid devices, tissue-engineered biohybrids, organism-level biohybrids, control principles for embodied perception, cognition, and action, synthetic biology, and synthetic consciousness. Additionally, research in biomimetic methods of manufacture, repair, and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis, and metamorphosis is encouraged.