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Talking with a robot in English

Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the present status and future plans of a research project aimed at communicating in natural language with an intelligent automaton. The automaton in question is a computer-controlled mobile robot capable of autonomously acquiring information about its environment and performing tasks normally requiring human supervision. By natural language communication is meant the ability of a human to successfully engage the robot in a dialog using simple English declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences. Communication is accomplished by means of a natural language interpretive question-answering system (ENGROB) consisting of six distinct components: a syntax analyser, a semantic interpreter, a model of the robot's environment, a deductive, automatic theorem proving system, an English output generator, and a repertoire of basic robot capabilities for sensing and manipulating the environment. An example is given that illustrates the type of processing done by each component, and the nature of component interactions.

Assembly of computers to command and control a robot

Abstract: There is a growing consensus among predictors of science that the world is about to witness the evolution of what might be called a new species---the robot. Whereas, animal evolution was a trial-and-error process, robot evolution appears likely to be carefully contrived. Starting where animal evolution left off, that is, with man, robot evolution promises to excel man is some respects, and be excelled by him in others.