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2003 Moravec cofounds SEEGRID Corporation (with Scott Friedman)
to develop commercial applications for mobile robots
2005 SEEGRID announces that the “Smarttruck” robot will be used
for work in warehouses

Further Reading

Books
Brooks, Rodney. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us.
New York: Panethon Books, 2002.
This description of Brooks’s robotics theories and experiments nicely
complements the accounts of Moravec’s work. The two researchers
share many ideas but also have differences in approach and attitude.
Moravec, Hans. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human
Intelligence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Moravec predicts a radical increase in the power of artificial intelli-
gence and its overshadowing of humanity; however, reality during the
following decade fell somewhat short of the predictions.
———. Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Moravec updates and elaborates predictions of robotics advances;
suggests robots will match human intelligence by 2040 and surpass it
by 2050.
Articles
Moravec, Hans. “Robots, After All.” Communications of the ACM
46 (October 2003): 90–97. Available online. URL: http://www.frc.
ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/robot.papers/2003/CACM.2003.
html. Accessed on September 10, 2005.
Describes the slow but now accelerating progress of robotics in recent
decades.
———. “The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover.” Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University. February 1983. Available online.
URL: http://cart.frc.ri.cmu.edu/users/hpm/project.archive/robot.
papers/1983/ieee83.mss. Accessed on September 12, 2005.
Moravec describes his extensive involvement with developing two
mobile robots in the 1970s and early 1980s.