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The methodology of the artificial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Luc Steels
Affiliation:
Sony Computer Science Laboratory – Paris, and VUB AI Laboratory, Brussels, 1050, Belgiumsteels@arti.vub.ac.be http://arti.vub.ac.be

Abstract

Biorobotics research should not only target “realistic” models of living systems and be judged exclusively from that perspective. It should pay just as much attention to formal models and artificial systems. They allow the examination of assumptions which do not necessarily hold for living systems, but precisely therein lies their value. They generate insight by enabling a comparison between the artificial and the real.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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