[Legacy Report] Will the Last Robot Leaving the Office Please Turn Out the Lights: Prospects for Robotics in the 21st Century
Mechanical devices that imitate human behaviors as well as automated computation first appeared 3000 years ago. Contemporary technologies incorporating simulated intelligence embodied in digital computers, environment sensing components, and mechanical effectors have produced machines of extraordinary sophistication and capability; they have the potential to replace human labor in countless circumstances and new applications are emerging exponentially. Practitioners and futurists see the ultimate goal of these endeavors as resulting in devices that are not only indistinguishable from, but capable of surpassing, human intelligence and behavior. Various approaches to these goals have materialized including: expert systems, subsumptive architectures, fuzzy logic, neural (autoassociative) networks, and more recently, integration of the human brain with mechanical manipulators as well as development of an organic brain. It is a combined endeavor of neurologists, physiologists, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists.
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