Image supplement for
ROBOT: mere
machine to transcendent mind
Hans Moravec,
Oxford University Press, 1998.
Chapter 6: The Age of Mind
181: Simple time loops
184: "Fixed point" finder
186: "NP" solver
188: Chess solver
Other chapter figures
Chapter 1: Escape Velocity
6: Community life and chipped silicon
10: Up, then down
11: Up, then down (cont)
Chapter 2: Caution! Robot Vehicle!
16: Cart under SAIL
18: 1950-Dr. W. Grey Walter
operates on one of his light-seeking tortoises
19: 1964-Two early versions
of the "Hopkins Beast" feeding at a wall outlet
27: 1970-Shakey the robot
reasons about its blocks
35: 1990-2D evidence grid
of a difficult hallway
39: 1979 and 1997-3D maps
from stereoscopic images
42: Carnegie Mellon's
self-driving Navlabs
Chapter 3: Power and Presence
58: MIPS and megabytes
60: Faster than exponential growth in computing power
68: The big freeze
71: Agony to ecstasy
89,90: Consciousness Raising
Chapter 4: Universal Robots
94: Dustbot
99: P2, an embryonic universal robot
105: A conceptual universal robot
108: Robot delivering package
116: Twin robot assembling furniture
124: Robot in kitchen
Chapter 5: The Age of Robots
151: The basket starfish
152: The juggler (side view)
153: The juggler (bottom view)
158: A synchronous orbital bridge
160: A non-synchronous orbital "skyhook"
Chapter 6: The Age of Mind
181: Simple time loops
184: "Fixed point" finder
186: "NP" solver
188: Chess solver
Chapter 7: Mind Fire