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[DPRG] From Bugs to Emergence?
Subject: [DPRG] From Bugs to Emergence?
From: dpa
dpa at io.isem.smu.edu
Date: Thu Jun 14 09:52:07 CDT 2007
Howdy,
> Take a ball catching dog to a slick floor and the game will be
> completely different.
I think this is at the root of R.Brooks insistence that robots be
developed and evaluated in the realworld, versus simulators or
artificial environments.
To quote a robots.net review (cough,cough) of "Cambrian Intelligence:"
> Brooks argues instead for "Situatedness" and "Embodiment" in the real
> world as necessary elements for any artificial intelligence, robotic
> and otherwise, to succeed, and offers examples from his own work at
> the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in evidence.
> Essentially these twin concepts mitigate against robotics research
> which is highly dependent on simulations and stylized problem sets.
> It argues for robots which exists as actual agents in the real world,
> interfacing with all the complexities, surprises, and history that
> the real world implies."
> ...specialized contests have not led to generalized solutions, but
> rather to more and more specialized solutions: robots that can
> operate nowhere outside of their specialized contest courses.
This is the problem I see with the DPRG contests as they are currently
configured, with the exception of the Long Haul competition.
regards,
dpa
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