THE VIDEO SHELF · braitenberg vehicles
The Braitenberg Vehicles
Brian Douglas introduces Braitenberg vehicles, simple robots whose sensors are wired directly to motors yet show surprisingly lifelike behavior. He draws on Valentino Braitenberg's book Vehicles.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a short, fascinating introduction to how simple sensor-actuator machines can appear intelligent.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Brian Douglas
- Topic
- braitenberg vehicles
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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Uphill Analysis, Downhill Synthesis is a major point in the book Vehicles . [0] Fascinating thought experiments. Here’s an introduction on YT [1], though it really only scratches the surface. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]
gherkinnn on Hacker News · 2020-02
In Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug itI am forever indebted to this book for pointing me to Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology ( [LINK] ) where very simple autonomous sensor/actuator machines combine to exhibit complex behaviour which maybe mistaken for "Intelligence". Makes you really think abut Complexity/Intelligence/Emergent Behaviour/etc. Wikipedia …
rramadass on Hacker News · 2024-05
In The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)
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