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56 Modern Robotics
That’s [the] big problem with robotics in general: People want to sit
down and build robots that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and in some cases, that funding has been there. Without worrying
Built around 1960 at the Stanford Research Institute, Shakey was the prototype
of a traditional artificial intelligence–based mobile robot. Even though computers
are far more powerful today, a simpler approach may be better for creating
simple robot appliances.
