We have been on quite a journey over the course of this book. I will tell you that I’ve learned a lot, and hope you have as well. I had the chance to revisit my love of robotics, and to spend a lot of time examining the state of the art of AI and robot design to try and find a way to explain the concepts to you in an easily digestible form. I tried to break through the jargon, the acronyms, and the equations to try to convince you that the science and art of AI robotics is something you can do and have a good time doing it.
I set out to give you a set of tools that I felt you needed to create artificial intelligence for robots. These are tools that I’ve collected over my many years designing robots.
I introduced you to my version of the subsumption architecture and how our robot can have several layers of goals at once. This type of approach...