Soundbites

ATLANTIS

• "Walking and chewing gum are both activities as is the combination of walking and chewing gum at the same time."

PCA

• "A widely useful robot technology will require a learning component to adapt to the reactivity demands of its particular operational setting."
• "The respective shifts of attention in computer vision and automated planning reflect a new awareness in both fields that first-principle models of the environment are too computationally expensive to be used directly in automated vision and planning systems."

ANA

• "An example of an autonomous agent would be a "robot pet" that "lives" in an everyday house and tries to survive and to receive attention from its human housemates."
• "I focus on schemes through which higher-level cognitive functions like planning, learning and communication can be realized in behavior-based agents without, thereby violating the principles of behavior-based AI."

TCA

• "the control of planning, perception, and action must be well structured for general-purpose robots to succeed in rich and uncertain environments.
• "To sustain long-term, unattended operation, mobile robots must be extremly self-reliant."