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            human beings (continued)  interest operator, in   in Genghis  92–93
              minds of, downloaded    Stanford Cart  133   in Hannibal  117–118
                142, 143          International Space Station    in Kismet  120, 123,
              as model for robots    80                     123–124
                31–32             inventor, as entrepreneur    in Sojourner  93
              physical coordination   54                   in Walter  153
                of  3–4           iRobot Corporation  50–  learning  53, 125, 126
              robotic extensions for    65, 97–98       “Legged Robots” (Raibert)
                46                IT (robot)  53         43
              robots as threat to  xvi,   i-Walk  108–109  Leg Laboratory (MIT)
                28                                       xviii, 37–38
              sense data assimilation       J           legs. See walking
                in  88            Japan, industrial robots   Leonardo (robot)  126
              in space exploration    used in  xviii    Leonardo da Vinci  xv
                80–81             Jet Propulsion Laboratory   liability, neural implants
              vision of  140       (MIT)  xix, 37, 51, 52,   and  158
            human labor  27, 28    68, 71–72            libraries, robots used by
            humanoid robots  93–95,   Jetsons (television)  50  27, 29
             105, 112. See also Asimo  Jim’ll Fix It (television)    light sources, movement
                                   152                   governed by  14–15
                      I           joints, in QRIO  108  LISP (List Processor)  132
            I, Cyborg (Warwick)  149,   Joseph F. Engelberger   living things. See also
             163                   Awards  31            human beings
            I, Robot (Asimov)  52  Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation   behaviors of, model-
            I Am a Mathematician   conferences  12          ing  99
             (Wiener)  4          Jupiter, missions to  80  communications and
            image processing  133–                          control in  10, 12
             134, 135. See also vision     K               creation of  99
            immortality, virtual  142  kangaroo robots  39,   distributed systems in
            Imperial College  150  40–41                    99–100
            implants  154–160     Kasparov, Gary  99       emotional states of  121
            industrial automation  16,   Kato, Hirokazu  94  v. robots  98
             25                   Kawato, Mitsuo  xx       robots modeled on  43
            industrial robots  22–35,   Kismet (robot)  xix, 97,   sense data assimilation
             33. See also Unimate  119–125, 122, 123        in  88
            infantry, carrying capacity   knight, mechanical  xv  love, robot need for  126
             of  44–46            Kurzweil, Ray  142    Lowell, Percival  71
            information storage, feed-  Kyberd, Peter  159  Lud, Ned  28
             back in  12–13                             Luddites  28
            information theory, cyber-      L
             netics’ influence on  16  Lab Mate (robot)  23      M
            insect robots  xix, 92–93  labor  27, 29    MacHack  99
            Institute for Advanced   language  109, 125–126  magnetic recorder, motion
             Study (Princeton),   launch dates  72, 74   controlled by  25
             Teleological Society at  12  law enforcement, robots   Managing Creativity
            intelligence  94, 98,   used by  60, 61, 98  (Shirley)  82
             136–140              layered behaviors  89  Managing Martians
            intelligent civilizations   in Allen  89–90  (Shirley)  66–67, 82
             (extraterrestrial)  70  in Attila  117–118  Mariner 9 mission  71–72
            Intelligent Home System    Brooks’s work with  89,  Mariner 10 mission  68,
             152                      89–90              74–75
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