Reasoning Robots: The Art and Science of Programming Robotic Agents

The creation of intelligent robots is surely one of the most exciting and ch- lenginggoals of Artificial Intelligence. A robot is, first of all, nothing but an inanimate machine with motors and sensors. In order to bring life to it, the machine needs to be programmed so as to make active use of its hardware c- ponents. This turns a machine into an autonomous robot. Since about the mid nineties of the past century, robot programming has made impressive progress. State-of-the-art robots are a...