Airbotics: a look into the future

Abstract

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Artificial Intelligence can be compared to a natural phenomena, in that, as soon as it is explained with laws of physics or mathematics it is no longer a phenomena. Since the 1950s AI has spawned new computer science fields like expert systems, intelligent assistance, speech understanding, natural language interfacing, text understanding, machine translation, computer vision, robotics, planning, knowledge acquisition, automatic programming, learning, inference, pattern matching, search, knowledge representation, and symbolic processing. These are some of the application areas for AI as listed by TI Engineering Journal, Vol. 3, Number 1. The 1980s was a decade that saw a computer revolution. What will the 1990s bring? It is a belief that the 1990s will bring the computer/robot which, in this paper, will be called Airobot. Airobot will incorporate several very important principles that most living organisms, including man, possess.