
Foreword
by
Rodney
A.
Brooks
Real creatures operate in a world where no measurement is
certain, no action is sure, and no belief is definite. The real
world just happens to be such a place. How, then, can we build
artificial creatures that can operate in these chaotic environments?
Classical AI has not tried to solve the whole problem since
the days of Shakey at SRI in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
Since then, researchers have worked on pieces of the problem.
The central paradigm linking these pieces of work and partial
solutions has been the idea that there should be a strong central
model reflecting the outside world in some representationa ...