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138 Modern Robotics

Though spectacular underachievers at the wacky new stunt of long-
hand calculation, we are veteran overachievers at perception and
navigation. Our ancestors, across hundreds of millions of years, pre-
vailed by being frontrunners in the competition to find food, escape

This chart shows how Hans Moravec suggests robotic capabilities have developed
since the 1950s, and may develop during the coming decades. The animals in the
right column are intended to show rough equivalents in biological brainpower.