Taskability of the Subsumption Architecture

Brooks considers the notion of taskability "orthogonal" to the agents built on subsumption architectures. Since they are designed to act in complete autonomy, he contends they should not be taskable. Thus, for an agent to undertake a specific task, it must be designed with that task in mind (possibly among others) and the appropriate behaviors for that task programmed directly into the design of the agent.

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