Shakey the robot

Shakey the Robot was the first general purpose mobile AI robot.

The project combined research in robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing. Because of this, it was the first project that melded logical reasoning and physical action. Shakey was developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) by Nils John Nilsson from 1966 to 1972.

Shakey The Robot Media

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  SRI's Shakey, the first mobile robot that could make decisions about how to move in its surroundings

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  Peter Hart discussed Shakey's firsts in a talk at Google in February 2015.

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  Shakey's creators at the IEEE Milestone award event at the Computer History Museum, February 2017: (from left) Richard O. Duda, Tom Garvey, IEEE President Elect Jim Jeffries, Peter E. Hart, Nils J. Nilsson, Richard Fikes, Helen Chan Wolff, Claude Fennema, Bertram Raphael, Mike Wilber.