Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI

by Rodney A. Brooks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262522632
• ISBN13: 9780262522632
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 17 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary