文件名称：From AI to Robotics_Mobile, Social, and Sentient Robots-CRC(2018).pdf
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AI Robotics
Since Walter’s Turtles, technology has come a long way and we can now boast of state-of-the-art robots, such as ASIMO, PR2, NaO and Pepper. My interest in this field of study, which has taken on obsessive proportions, is due to my academic background, my participation in various open source robotic communities (Player/Stage, ROS, MORSE etc.), my teaching assignments and projects with my students and above all, a child-like desire to make robots. Not withstanding my personal desire to put together nearly all that I have learnt over the last ten years, robotics and AI truly stand to change the world as we know it. In this text spanning ten chapters, I have looked to various researchers; Braitenberg, Dennett, *s, Arkin, Murphy, Winfield, Vaughan, Dudek, Dorigo, Sahin, Bekey, Abney, Wendell, Takeno, Bringsjord and the Andersons, as those who have had a lasting impression on me and have shown me the proverbial light to the correct path. Other than these academic influences and motivation, science fiction, particularly Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Cory Doctorow, Peter Watts etc., led me to engaging queries on various aspects of AI and robots and their influence on human society and helped me to illustrate ideas in the later chapters. Furthermore, I have been influenced by and have enjoyed a long list of movies, among which are iconic robot movies such as, Wall-E, IRobot and cult classics, such as The Metropolis, Blade Runner and West World, and the more recent ones, such as Interstellar, Real Steel, Robot and Frank, Big Hero 6 and Ex-Machina. This text is meant for undergraduate students and may also serve as a reference for graduate students. It attempts to introduce the reader to what has been achieved in agent-based robotics over the last four decades, the ways we can implement such concepts with easily available electronics and open source tools, multirobot teams, swarm robotics and human robot interaction, as well as the efforts to develop artificial consciousness in robots. The last chapter is on the future of AI and robotics in the foreshadow of the prophecies of super intelligent AI and technological singularity.