Achieving Artificial Intelligence through Building Robots

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Rodney A. Brooks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A.I. Memo 899
May 1986

We argue that generally accepted methodologies of Artificial Intelligence research are limited in the proportion of human level intelligence they can be expected to emulate. We argue that the currently accepted decompositions and static representations used in such research are wrong. We argue for a shift to a process based model, with a decomposition based on task achieving behaviors as the organizational principle. In particular we advocate building robotic insects.