Artificial Intelligence Marches Forward :The Scientist [14/3/2005]

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by Laura Spinney

RESEARCH

Artificial Intelligence Marches Forward

As physiology and neuroscience increasingly inform robotics, maybe robots can return the favor

Email: Laura Spinney - lspinney@the-scientist.com
The Scientist 2005, 19(5):18

Published

14 March 2005

Rodney Brooks has what seems like modest career goals: to achieve the manual dexterity of a 6-year-old and the object-recognition skills of a toddler. But for the moment, his field of robotics remains in its infancy. "Over the past 20 years we've gotten pretty good at navigation," says Brooks, who heads Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "But none of the robots manipulates the environment. None of them really understands the objects they encounter outside of the lab."


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