人工生命于1993年秋季啟動，通過使用計算（軟件）、機器人（硬件）和/或物理化學（濕器）等工具進行綜合或模擬，已成為交流有關顯示自然生命系統行為特征的人工系統研究的科學信息的統一論壇。每一期都以對人工生命的前沿研究為特色，這些研究提高了我們對生活系統各個方面的知識水平，例如：人工化學與生命起源自我組裝、成長和發展自我復制和自我修復系統與合成生物學感知、認知和行為體現和實施主義群體的集體行為進化與生態動力學開放性和創造性社會組織與文化演變社會和技術影響哲學與美學生物學、醫學、商業、教育或娛樂的應用這本雜志塑造并記錄了人造生命的發展，將生物學研究的視野擴展到我們所知的生命之外，并盡可能地擴展到生命的領域。

Artificial Life, launched in the fall of 1993, has become the unifying forum for the exchange of scientific information on the study of artificial systems that exhibit the behavioral characteristics of natural living systems, through the synthesis or simulation using computational (software), robotic (hardware), and/or physicochemical (wetware) means. Each issue features cutting-edge research on artificial life that advances the state-of-the-art of our knowledge about various aspects of living systems such as:Artificial chemistry and the origins of lifeSelf-assembly, growth, and developmentSelf-replication and self-repairSystems and synthetic biologyPerception, cognition, and behaviorEmbodiment and enactivismCollective behaviors of swarmsEvolutionary and ecological dynamicsOpen-endedness and creativitySocial organization and cultural evolutionSocietal and technological implicationsPhilosophy and aestheticsApplications to biology, medicine, business, education, or entertainmentThe journal shapes and chronicles the development of artificial life, extending the horizons of biological research beyond life-as-we-know-it and into the domain of life-as-it-could-be.