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The Biology of Behavior — Criteria for Success in Animals and Robots

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The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents

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The aim of this paper is to discuss “doing the right thing”. The question is what is the right thing? In animal behaviour studies there is a consensus on this question, and I will start by outlining this. In animal behaviour studies there is no consensus as to how optimal behaviour is achieved, and I will outline some of the problems. In robotics there is no consensus about doing the right thing and I will ask what can be learned from animal behaviour.

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  1. Department of Zoology and Balliol College, Oxford, UK

    David McFarland

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Luc Steels

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McFarland, D. (1995). The Biology of Behavior — Criteria for Success in Animals and Robots. In: Steels, L. (eds) The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents. NATO ASI Series, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79629-6_1

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