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Mars xix, 71–72, 73, 75 mule robots 44–46 Oklahoma, University
Mars Observer 75 muscular action, eye in 3 of 67
Massachusetts Institute museum guide, Asimo as Opportunity rover 80–81,
of Technology (MIT) 110 117
5–6, 7, 37–38, 51, 87, Muybridge, Eadweard 44 Oreo cookies, manufacture
111–113, 117 My Real Baby 53–55, 98 of 27
mathematics 1, 4–5, 6, 10 mythology, robots in xv ostrich, walking mecha-
McCarthy, John 86–87, nism of 104
90 N outer space, environment
McCulloch, Warren 10, 12 nanotechnology 143 of 68–69
McDonald’s, robots used National Automated Oxford University 150
by 27 Highway System
McDonnell Aircraft 68 Research Program 137 P
McGhee, Robert 38 natural language 109, P1 (robot) 106
Mead, Margaret 12 125–126 P2 (robot) 94, 106–107,
Mercury 74 natural selection, in genetic 112
Metropolis (film) xvi programming 91 P3 (robot) 94, 107
military 42, 44–46, 60, navigation systems xviii, PackBot (robot) 60
98, 139 58, 59, 77, 133, 135, PackBot Explorer (robot)
Mind Children: The Future 142–144 60
of Robot and Human Navlab (robot) 135–136 pendulum, balancing
Intelligence (Moravec) Navlab 2 (robot) 136 39–40
131, 136 Navlab 5 (robot) 136 personal computers. See
Minsky, Marvin 90 negative feedback 8 computer
MIT. See Massachusetts nerve signals, prostheses philosophy of mathemat-
Institute of Technology controlled by 16–17 ics 5
Mobile Robotics nervous system 6, 10, philosophy, robots and xx
Laboratory (Carnegie 157–160 Pinocchio 126
Mellon) 144 networks, as distributed pitch motion 41
Mobile Robotics systems 99 Pittau, Rev. Joseph 112
Laboratory (MIT) 51 Neumann, John von 9 Pitts, Walter 10
mobile robots xviii–xix, neural implants 158–160, planetary rovers xix, 51,
133–136, 152. See also 161, 162 66–84, 76, 79, 93, 117
walking robots neural networks 10, 11, pogo stick robot 40
modeling, of living behav- 90–91, 151 positive feedback 8
iors 99 neurology 16, 149 postural motion 41,
momentum, in walking Neuromancer (Gibson) 41–42
111–113 162 posture control, in Asimo
Moore, Gordon 140 Newcastle, University of 109
Moore’s Law 29, 99, 150 Princeton University,
137–140, 138 New York Stock Exchange, Teleological Society at
Moravec, Hans xviii, xx, Asimo at 110 12
87, 91, 131, 131–147 nightclubs, RFID implants Principia Mathematica
More, Grinnell 87, 92 for 156 (Russell and Whitehead)
Morris, Errol 100 Norman (robot) 86 5
Mosher, Robert 40 nuclear power, servomech- privacy, cyborg connec-
motion 41, 41–42, 44–45 anisms used in 23 tions and 156
motivational drives, in probabilities of intelligent
Kismet 125 O civilizations 70
movement 14–15, 25, O’Connell, Sanjida, on processing 139, 140–142
36–37 Cog 97 productivity xviii, 151