Philosophical Problems in Robotics:

Philosophical Robotics

Cross-Disciplinary Reflections: Philosophical Robotics

This chapter reports work done mostly by one member of the team – a philosopher with substantial AI programming experience, whose primary interests were in the very long term goals of the project, summarised in Chapter 1, including the goal of shedding light on problems solved by biological evolution , and who was not directly involved in the coding but who interacted closely with people who we...

Fitness : Philosophical Problems

[120-150 words] Fitness plays many roles throughout evolutionary theory, from a measure of populations in the wild to a central element in abstract theoretical presentations of natural selection. It has thus been the subject of an extensive philosophical literature, which has primarily centered on the way to understand the relationship between fitness values and reproductive outcomes. If fitnes...

Science: philosophical problems.

Von Neumann: Help Sought with Film: A. N. Feldzamen; Beam Storage in the Cambridge Electron Accelerator: M. S. Livingston; The Landscape: Economic Abandonment: P. van Dresser; R. E. LaFond; A. R. Lepley; Prohyphen: S. A. Brown; New Russian Journal in Genetics: H. J. Muller; Academic Administrators: New Breed: R. F. Carbone; A. J. Dibden; Erratum: Training Stipends for Foreign Biologists ...... ...

Three Problems in Robotics

Three rather different problems in robotics are studied using the same technique from screw theory. The first problem concerns systems of springs. The potential function is differentiated in the direction of an arbitrary screw to find the equilibrium position. The second problem is almost identical in terms of the computations, the least squares solution to the problem of finding the rigid moti...