Publication Details

Shakey The Robot

by Nilsson, Nils J.

Technical Note 323
Institution: AI Center, SRI International
Address: 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025
Apr 1984.

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Abstract

From 1966 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI conducted research on a mobile robot system nicknamed ``Shakey. Endowed with a limited ability to perceive and model its environment, Shakey could perform tasks that required planning, route-finding, and the rearranging of simple objects. Although the Shakey project led to numerous advances in AI techniques, many of which were reported in the literature, much specific information that might be useful in current robotics research appears only in a series of relatively inaccessible SRI technical reports. Our purpose here, consequently, is to make this material more readily available by extracting and reprinting those sections of the reports that seem particularly interesting, relevant and important.

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Associated Projects

	Application of Intelligent Automata to Reconnaissance Development of the original robot Shakey for exploring AI problems.
	Artificial Intelligence – Research and Applications The fifth project using Shakey as a platform to test/demonstrate AI problems and approaches.
	Research and Applications Artificial Intelligence The fourth project centered around Shakey as a platform for investigating AI problems.
	Research and Applications Artificial Intelligence A continuation of the AI research based around Shakey.
	Research on Intelligent Automata A continuation of the original Shakey robot project, investigating AI problems involved in developing a robot.