| Sumario: | The answer to whether intelligent “humanoid” robots will ever exist probably lies in biology rather than in mechanics. To date, the two disciplines that together would produce any humanoid, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), have proceeded along distinct lines. Robotics has concentrated on bodies without minds, that is, machines that can perform tasks without the ability to think about them; AI has concentrated on minds without bodies, that is, creating computer programs that are good at solving mental problems. However, many biologists contend that intelligent behavior, which is defined as behavior appropriate to an environment, is bound up in an organism's sensory perceptions and physiological needs—how its body responds to things around it. If this is the case, then a brain without a body may never be completely intelligent. Various experiments that have been conducted in robotics and AI are discussed.
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