By Hans Moravec

A dizzying demonstrate of mind and wild imaginings via Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself built shrewdpermanent beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes throughout as a hugely a professional and inventive talent-which is simply what the sector wishes" - Kirkus studies.

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In Massachusetts, that was developing a robot security guard (more accurately, a roving burglar alarm). Instead of a camera, the robot was equipped with a beltlike ring of sonar range sensors like those found in Polaroid cameras. These had already been found to be very useful for detecting the presence and general direction of nearby obstacles, thus allowing the robot Our aim was more ambitious, however. Instead to avoid them. of merely sensing imminent collisions, could the continuously active sonar system be used to build a map of the surroundings that could direct accurate point-to-point navigation, as (three times out of four) our vision-guided programs could do?

Wrote a program based on these ideas and were astonished when it droxe the robot much more reliably than the old TV-guided program. Yet another student, Alberto Elfes, another graduate student, and Bruno 1 Serrey, along with Larry Matthies, then TV the probabilistic approach for worked remarkably better than Our new method represents found a way to use data and again discovered that the space around the robot as a grid of cells, each containing the probability, based on readings, that a corresponding cell in space occupied by matter.

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