AI Center :: Shakey

From 1966 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) conducted research on a mobile robot system nicknamed "Shakey." Endowed with a limited ability to perceive and model its environment, Shakey could perform tasks that required planning, route-finding, and the rearranging of simple objects. Although the Shakey project led to numerous advances in AI techniques, many of which were reported in the literature, much specific information appears only in a series of previously relatively inaccessible SRI technical reports. In 1969, the demonstrations of Shakey were collected in a 24-minute film "SHAKEY: Experimentation in Robot Learning and Planning" (91.7MB The possibilities of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence caught the public's imagination.