SB-AI 2015 - 2015 What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence?

Since the 90ies the "embodied approach" focuses the attention of cognitive sciences on the role(s) played by the body in cognition, stimulating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build and study "embodied" or "complete" agents -- robots. Until now AI limited its exploration to artificial agents endowed with mechanical bodies. Current technical developments in Synthetic Biology (SB) promise to significantly extend AI's inquiries on "embodied cognition", inaugurating the possibility of building not only mechanical, but also "biological robots" -- artificial agents endowed with biological bodies. SB-AI 2015 encourages the establishment of an interdisciplinary front line research interconnecting SB and AI in the exploration of embodied cognition.