Published January 27, 2010 | Version v1

Against Animats

  • 1. UPM Autonomous Systems Laboratory / University of Zaragoza

Description

Animats are artificial animals, a contraction of anima-materials. The term includes physical robots and virtual simulations. Animat research, a subset of Artificial Life studies, has become rather popular since Rodney Brooks' seminal paper "Intelligence without representation". The word was coined by S.W. Wilson in 1991, in the first proceedings of the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, which was also called From Animals to Animats.

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European Commission
ICEA - Integrating cognition, emotion and autonomy 027819