The robot Leo. (Image courtesy Andrea Lockerd and Guy Hoffman.)
Course Highlights
This class includes a complete set of
lecture notes, which consist of critiques of the week's
readings by the students. A sampling of the final
projects is also included.
Course Description
This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building machines that cooperate with humans and with other machines. Philosophical, scientific, and theoretical insights into this subject will be covered, as well as how these ideas are manifest in both natural and artificial systems (e.g. software agents and robots).
Special Features
Technical Requirements
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.