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Cognitive robotics: a new approach to artificial intelligence

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This paper describes a research program about how to achieve artificial intelligence by building robots. It is part of the behavior-oriented AI approach, but differs in some of its hypotheses and methodological approach.

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Christaller, T. Cognitive robotics: a new approach to artificial intelligence. Artif Life Robotics 3, 221–224 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481184

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