The Use of Vision and Manipulation to Solve the 'Instant Insanity' Puzzle

Early programs were written to demonstrate that a particular task could be accomplished and could not periorm other tasks, even if quite similar, without being extensively rewritten. Generality unnecessary for the task at hand was sacrificed to keep the programs as *Currently on leave to The University of Jerusalem **Now at Computer Science Department, Rutgers University ***Is now at NIH, Bethesda, Maryland ****With Lockheed Palo Alto Research Labs //This research was supported by the Advanced research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Contract No. SD-183. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Government. Bmall as possible so they would fit the core limitations of our computer. The main result of this research was the development of programs which could find and stack cubes, either sorting them by size (1), or ordering them by voice command (2).