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From: compton@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Michael Compton)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: I need a Scientific American refrence
Summary: Braitenberg's "Vehicles"
Message-ID: <12769@einstein.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 May 91 02:44:14 GMT
References: <161108.10771@timbuk.cray.com>
Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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In article <161108.10771@timbuk.cray.com>, kilian@cray.com (Alan Kilian) writes:
> 
> ... I remember a Scientific American article a few years ago that had some 
> simple robots that sensed light bulbs and would drive around seeking
> or avoiding the light based on their neuron like programming...

I can't remember when the article appeared, but after reading it I bought
a book by the same author that elaborates on the topic:
   "VEHICLES - Experiments in Synthetic Psychology"
   by Valentino Braitenberg
   MIT Press, 1984

Hope this helps.

-Michael Compton
 AI Research Branch
 NASA Ames Research Center
 compton@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov