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Note: Italic page numbers artificial life (AL) 91, balance 38, 39–40,
indicate illustrations. 98–99 108–109
Asada, Minoru 109 ballistics 6–8
A Asimo (Advanced Step banking, robots used in
Afghanistan 45 in Innovative Mobility) 28–29
Age of Reason xv–xvi (robot) xix, 94, 103– Bateson, Gregory 12
agoraphobia 149 115, 105, 106, 107 bathing, epileptic seizures
AI. See artificial intelligence Asimov, Isaac xvi, 24, during 153
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 32, 52 batteries, in Asimo 110
(film) 126 assembly lines, robots in Battlebots 155
Aibo (robot) 55, 108 25–27 behavior, modeling 99. See
Aiken, Howard 9 assistive devices 151– also layered behaviors
AL. See artificial life 152, 162 behavior-based robotics,
Allen (robot) 88–91 Aston University 150 practical applications of
Alzheimer’s therapy 128 ATM machines 28–29 97–98
Amazon.com 144 Attila (robot) 117 BigDog (robot) 44–46
American Association for augmented finite state biofeedback 16–17
Artificial Intelligence 100 machines 92 biological communica-
American Association automated manufacturing tions processes, feedback
for the Advancement of systems, productivity of in 12
Science 100 151 biology xx, 1, 6, 98,
amplifier 8 automatic controls. See 99, 109. See also living
analog computer 6 servomechanisms things
Angle, Colin xix, 50, automatons xv–xvi bionic organisms. See
51, 51, 55–57, 61, 92, automobile industry, cyborgs
97. See also iRobot robots used in xviii, bipedal robots 40
Corporation 22, 25–27, 26 bipolar disorder 3
animation, motion simula- autonomous continuous BIT (robot baby doll) 53
tion in 44–45 movement, in Asimo body language, in Kismet
antlike robots 141 110 119
Apollo 13 mission 81 autonomous vehicles. bombers, tracking and
Applica 60 See self-driving vehicles aiming by 6–8
arm 15–17, 24, 24–26, Bose, Amar 16
26, 92, 154–155 B Boston arm 15–17
artificial intelligence (AI) baby doll, robot-based Boston Dynamics 42
57, 86–87, 90, 91, 98– 53–55, 98 Bradbury, Ray 71
99, 112, 132 Baby IT (robot baby doll) brain, human 10, 88
Artificial Intelligence 53, 54 Breazeal, Cynthia xix, 97,
Laboratory (MIT) 52, babysitter, robot as 116–130, 117
85 128 British Telecom 150

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