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11 AI and Robotics
Your Aim
to learn about:
l What is Artificial Intelligence? l What can Artificial Intelligence do Today?
l Implementing Artificial Intelligence l Philosophers Views on Artificial Intelligence
l Robots and Robotics l Uses of Robotics
l Some Popular Robots around the World l Androids
l Humanoid l Mechatronics
Artificial Intelligence is relatively new field in science & engineering. The gestation of Artificial
Intelligence started in 1950. Alan Turing in his article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” in
1950 introduced the Turing Test, machine learning, genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning.
WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
The English Oxford Living Dictionary gives the definition of AI as “The theory and development
of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual
perception, speech recognition, decision making, and translation between languages”.
In other words, Artificial Intelligence is an area
where computer science and engineering Neural
Networks
emphasise on creation of intelligent systems Cognitive Planning
Systems
that can work and react like humans.
A lot of research has been carried on since Artificial
Knowledge Robotics
then. Artificial Intelligence researchers took Intelligence
ideas, view points and techniques from various
Machine
fields like philosophy, mathematics, economics, Perception Natural Learning
neuroscience, psychology, computer Language
Processing
engineering, cognitive science, linguistics,
operation research, control theory probability Artificial Intelligence
and logic etc.
WHAT CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DO TODAY?
Artificial Intelligence has advanced very rapidly in the past decade because of greater use of
science, engineering and mathematics in experimenting and comparing approaches. Artificial
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