Shakey the Robot

Shakey was the first autonomous vehicle. It could:

• Sense it's surroundings
• Build an internal model of it's world
• Accept simple english commands for actions with layers of complexity
• Reason about actions which could accomplish the goal
• Remember plans which succeeded and re-use them in future tasks

The long list of methods and technologies which were developed during this project have long reaching effects, and are still used in many areas of automation to this day.

• A* searches
• The Hough transform
• The visibility graph method
• STRIPS

See also:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmU7SimFkpU A demo video showing the real Shakey recognizing and modeling the environment, responding to unexpected issues, solving problems, and executing complex solutions.
• https://ethw.org/Milestones:SHAKEY:_The_World%E2%80%99s_First_Mobile_Intelligent_Robot,_1972
• https://www.sri.com/hoi/shakey-the-robot/ Shakey was developed at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) from 1966 to 1972
• https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/artificial-intelligence-robotics/13/289 Shakey is on display at the Computer History Museum
• http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/629.pdf Shakey the Robot: Tech note 323