Guide to Shakey: An Experiment in Robot Planning and Learning V0326
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Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
October 2010
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Title: Shakey: An Experiment in robot planning and learning [videorecording]
Identifier/Call Number: V0326
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.75 Linear feet
Date: 1972
Summary: From 1966 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) 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.
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Shakey: An Experiment in Robot Planning and Learning (V0326). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
From 1966 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) 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.
Film producered by Peter Hart and Nils Nilsson.
This DVD is a film to tape transfer of the original 16mm film housed in the Stanford University Archives (Film E116).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hart, Peter.
Hart, Peter.
Nilsson, Nils J., 1933-
Artificial intelligence.
Robotics.
Box 1
Original film FILM E116
Physical Description:
1.0 film reel(s) (16mm)
Box 1
Use copy
Physical Description:
1.0 optical disc(s) (DVD)