Australian-American AI researcher and robotics pioneer who argued that intelligence is not about central symbolic representation but about embodied, reactive behaviors — the subsumption architecture.
Intelligence Without Representation (1991): sophisticated behavior can emerge from simple reactive systems without any central world model — the world is its own best representation. Subsumption architecture: layers of reactive behaviors without a central planner. Founded iRobot (Roomba) and Rethink Robotics.
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