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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141036903321

Autore

Dawson Michael Robert William <1959->

Titolo

From bricks to brains : the embodied cognitive science of LEGO robots / / Michael R. W. Dawson, Brian Dupuis, Michael Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca University Press, 2010

Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-85202-7

9786612852022

1-897425-79-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Disciplina

629.8/92

Soggetti

Robots - Programming

Robots - Dynamics

Cognitive science

Robots - Design and construction

Artificial intelligence

LEGO toys

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mind control - internal or external? -- Classical music and the classical mind -- Situated cognition and bricolage -- Braitenberg's vehicle 2 -- Thoughtless walkers -- Machina speculatrix -- The subsumption architecture -- Embodiment, stigmergy, and swarm intelligence -- Totems, toys -- or tools?

Sommario/riassunto

From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous



examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an age