title: Defining life: connecting robotics and chemistry.
abstract: Life is commonly referred as open systems driven by organic chemistry capable to self reproduce and to evolve. The notion of life has also been extended to non chemical systems such as robots. The key characteristics of living systems, i.e. autonomy, self-replication, self-reproduction, self-organization, self-aggregation, autocatalysis, as defined in chemistry and in robotics, are compared in a dialogue between a chemist and a robotitian.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France. brack@cnrs-orleans.fr
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brack
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Troublé
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D019418:Evolution, Chemical; D019369:Life; D012371:Robotics