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Much of ALife-related research can be assigned to three main categories:

Wet ---Hard--- Soft

  1. Wet: liquid systems (chemistry and physics on the benchtop).
    • Prebiotic chemistry: generating the precursors of living systems
    • Replication and evolution in a test tube
    • Distinguishing internal and external environments: membrane physics
  2. Hard: physical systems
    • Soft robotics,
    • Biomimetic engineering and embodied intelligence
    • Computing hardware
  3. Soft: simulation systems
    • Automata
    • Artificial chemistry
    • Simulated environments
    • Evolutionary computation