- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Allen Lane (2 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713995017
- ISBN-13: 978-0713995015
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,157,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For someone who runs MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory--one of the world's leading AI institutes--Robot author Rodney Brooks is remarkably laid-back about the business of intelligence.
In fact, he doesn't rate it very highly. In an account of a life's work remarkable for its wit, its humility and its generosity (Brooks's colleagues and students are very well served), a running theme is the conspicuous impossibility of building intelligence into machines that are otherwise not lifelike. Brooks bemoans those experimental robots which "used reasoning in situations where real animals have direct links from perception to action".
His own approach is much less abstruse, much easier to understand and communicate--and much more radical. Brooks's robots aren't supposed to think. They're supposed to feel. They have emotions. 'Just sensing and action. This is all I would build, and completely leave out what traditionally was thought of as the intelligence of an artificial intelligence.'
The result of his work is a living menagerie of extraordinary philosophical importance. Wander through Brooks's 'zoo', and you may find your own biological specialness challenged. More important, though, is what these lovingly detailed experiments say about the body (whatever it's made from), about feelings, and about the incalculably messy nature of the world.
Rarely, in a literature besotted with abstraction and disembodiment, do we come across a life-enhancing book. This is it.--Simon Ings
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The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Most of us have accepted the idea that the World Wide Web is now an important part of life and here to stay. But where will technology take us next? What is on the horizon? This book introduces the reader to recent advances in robotics. The author Rodney A. Brooks has seen the future: robots will not take over the human race; flesh will instead merge with machine. This is already happening, and this work reveals how.
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I found this to be an interesting description of the state of affairs concerning robots by clearly one of the leading researchers in the field. However, the book was billed to be a view into the future of robots and robotics, and it was desperately short-sighted in that respect. For that, I was disappointed by the book, however, there were a number of saving graces, most notably a number of amusing anecdotes from someone at the centre of his field.
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