title: Living and learning.
abstract: To be plausible, biorobots will need to build themselves. Such autopoietic systems will be autonomous, active learners whose functional architecture is a joint product of factors supplied by the designer and factors learned from encountering an environment. Creating such biorobots will require appropriate theories of cognition, learning, and evolution, all of which are available.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom j.pickering@warwick.ac.uk.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pickering