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How robotics expands A.I.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Alex M. Andrew
Alex M. Andrew
Affiliation:
Viable Systems, Splatt Mill, Chillaton, Lifton, Devon PL16 0JB, (U.K.)
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Summary

Artificial Intelligence clearly influences Robotics, but the advent of the latter alters the character of A.I. itself, bringing it closer to natural intelligence. This is partly due to greater attention to processes depending on continuous variables, and the combination of these with concept-based or “logical” processes. Some fundamental A.I. principles, notably Minsky's heuristic connection, involve continuity, and the advent ofRobotics should stimulate developments which take them into account. A scheme for a robot which can increase its speed of operation by a learning process is outlined.

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A.I.RoboticsExpansionNatural intelligence

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Robotica , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 111 - 115
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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