...robotics has helped to develop many AI ideas. It has led to several techniques for modeling world states and for describing the process of change from one...problems have forced us to develop methods for planning first at a high level of abstraction, ignoring details, and then at lower and lower levels, where details...

...robotics has helped to develop many AI applications. It has led to several techniques for modeling "state of the world" and for describing the process of change...has led to a better understanding of how to generate action plans in sequence and how to monitor the execution of these plans. One challenge is to develop...