"OK, so what's my research goal? I come from the machines end of this world, roughly. And what I really want to do is figure out how it is that we can make intelligent robots. And I do this mostly because I'm interested in intelligence more than I'm interested actually in robots. But I think that trying to make a physical agent who goes out and interacts in the world is a really good test bed for understanding what kinds of reasoning and perception and control we need in order to make it an intelligent system."
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Leslie P. Kaelbling
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is widely recognized for adapting partially observable Markov decision processes from operations research for application in artificial intelligence and robotics. Kaelbling received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1997 for applying reinforcement learning to embedded control systems and developing programming tools for robot nav
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