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Sunday, December 08, 2002
Immobots Take Control - By Wade Roush, Technology Review
From photocopiers to space probes, machines injected with robotic self-awareness are reliable problem solvers. Once programmed with immobotic software, Williams explains, these systems “have a commonsense model of the physics of their internal components and can reason from that model to determine what is wrong and to know how to act.” Such systems are more self-reliant than typical computers, which are very good at executing mindless, step-by-step instructions laid out for them by software engineers. However, computers are still amateurs when it comes to thinking their way through unforeseen crises such as component failures.
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