Roomba: Simple Rules, Real-World Demands
Simple Rules, Then the Customer Test
Rodney Brooks’s starting point was a challenge to a familiar picture of a robot: a machine with a complicated central brain, or a humanlike body, directing every move. He argued that useful behavior could emerge from simpler rules inspired by insects. Rather…
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