Hans Moravec
Hans Peter Moravec is an Austrian-born Canadian computer scientist and adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, where he directed the Mobile Robot Laboratory from 1980 to 2005. He is chief scientist and co-founder of Seegrid Corporation, a company developing vision-guided industrial mobile robots. He is best known for his pioneering work in mobile robot navigation, including 3D occupancy grids for robot spatial representation, and his writings on the future of robot and human intelligence, including the books Mind Children and Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind.
“On-going advances in robotic software and artificial intelligence present a very optimistic picture that these levels of robotics will be achieved as Moravec predicted... By most measures, AI is around monkey-level and approaching human-level now in the 2020s.”
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