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Regardless of how Shakey got its name, SRI continued the tradition with Shakey’s
successor being called Flakey, followed by Flakey’s successor, Erratic.

Strips.
The description of Strips and the robot examples are adapted from The Handbook of
Artificial Intelligence, A. Barr and E. Feigenbaum, editors, vol. 1, William Kaufmann,
Inc., Los Altos, CA, 1981.

Jim Albus.
Jim Albus is one of the statesmen of robotics. Although his RCS architecture is a rep-
resentative of the Hierarchical Paradigm, Albus was heavily by cognitive studies—so
much so that he wrote Brains, Behaviors and Robots (1981). What’s odd is that ex-
ploiting biological and cognitive studies is commonly associated with the Reactive
Paradigm. The RCS architecture was never meant to be totally static, and in recent
years, it has begun to resemble what will be referred to as a model-oriented style of
the Hybrid Paradigm.