They had four primitive actions: north, south, east, and west. Multi-Floor Office is an extension of Office to multiple floors. Pick-up and put-down have the intended effect when appropriate; otherwise they do not change the state. T owers of Hanoi contains four discs of different sizes, placed on three poles. Options generated using alternative methods called primitive actions directly.

Temporal abstractions in the form of options have been shown to help reinforcement learning (RL) agents learn faster.

The use of anthropomorphic robotic hands for assisting individuals in situations where human hands may be unavailable or unsuitable has gained significant importance.