Ten Years of the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition

"Neats and scruffies alike were mesmerized by the animal-like responses of the robots demonstrated there," says Bonasso. "At the end of "This won't be a slick, polished competition. Over the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition years, the event and AI Magazine have served as was born. The event has endured to a venue for this and several other intellectual become the oldest AIcentric robotics competition debates, including sensing versus modeling, in the world. As we near the end of our color-based versus shape-based object recognition, first decade, it seems worthwhile to reflect on and reactive control versus symbolic what the origins of the event were, how it has planning for robot navigation (Balch et al. evolved, and where it is headed. The contest immediately took on two important but apparently conflicting roles: First, it provided a target for research in AI and robotics; in Pete Bonasso's words, the event was cast "in the spirit of trying to develop as animate, responsive, and intelligent robot behavior as possible" (Dean and Bonasso 1993).