approach, famously pioneered by Rod Brooks (1990), focused the commercial and innovation
orientation of AI away from the modeling of human-like intelligence towards providing feedback
mechanisms that would allow for practical and effective robotics for specified applications. This
insight led, among other applications, to the Roomba and to other adaptable industrial robots that
could interact with humans such as Rethink Robotics’ Baxter). Continued innovation in robotics
technologies (particularly in the ability of robotic devices to sense and interact with their
environment) may lead to wider application and adoption outside industrial automation.
These advances are important, and the most advanced robots continue to capture public
imagination when the term AI is invoked. But innovations in robotics are not, generally
speaking, IMIs.
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