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Author Brooks, Rodney Allen.

Title Cambrian intelligence : the early history of the new AI.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bradford Bks.
Bradford Bks.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents pt. I. Technology. Robust layered control system for a mobile robot -- Robot that walks: emergent behaviors from a carefully evolved network -- Learning a distributed map representation based on navigation behaviors -- New approaches to robotics. pt. II. Philosophy. Intelligence without representation -- Planning is just a way of avoiding figuring out what to do next -- Elephants don't play chess -- Intelligence without reason.
Summary Until the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediates between perception and plans of action. Realizing that this core AI, as it was known, was illusory, Rodney A. Brooks turned the field of AI on its head by introducing the behavior-based approach to robotics. The cornerstone of behavior-based robotics is the realization that the coupling of perception and action gives rise to all the power of intelligence and that cognition is only in the eye of an observer. Behavior-based robotics has been the basis of successful applications in entertainment, service industries, agriculture, mining, and the home. It has given rise to both autonomous mobile robots and more recent humanoid robots such as Brooks' Cog. This book represents Brooks' initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavior-based approach to robotics. It presents all of the key philosophical and technical ideas that put this "bottom-up" approach at the forefront of current research in not only AI but all of cognitive science.
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Subject Robotics.
Robotics.
Artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Brooks, Rodney Allen. Cambrian intelligence. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262024683 (DLC) 99007220 (OCoLC)40668307
ISBN 0585077460 (electronic book)
9780585077468 (electronic book)
9780262024686
0262024683
0262024683
0262522632
9780262522632