The Smell in Living Creatures

Homeostasis: From Living Creatures to Living Machines

The Problem: While many robots in industry and research have proven capable of operating in complex environments, most robots still fall well short of living creatures in their ability to deal with extreme variations in their environment. Living creatures, by contrast, will typically cope in any environment to the extent that their physical bodies allow. Living creatures never give up trying to...

Characteristics of the non-smooth surface morphology of living creatures and its application in agricultural engineering

Contrasting with smoothness, non-smoothness occurs widely around the world. There are many typical non-smooth surface morphologies in living creatures. Non-smooth surfaces have some special functions during the evolution of living creatures. According to the traditional conception, the body surface is smoother, and the adhesion force is smaller. In many cases, the surfaces of some products or w...

The Creatures Global Digital Ecosystem

An artificial life entertainment software product called Creatures was released in Europe in late 1996 and in the United States and Japan in mid-1997. When installed on a domestic computer (PC or Macintosh), each Creatures CD-ROM creates a virtual world in which autonomous software agents exist. The agents, known as "norn," interact with the human user, with each other, and with objects in thei...

To smell or not to smell? That is the question!

The Smell of Representations

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