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Robots and their relation to mankind have taken a long and diversified development. Starting from the romantic desire to have a workmate and/or playmate centuries ago, the modern history of robot control starts with the birth of artificial intelligence (AI) about 50 years ago. In the hype of that time, robots were considered as machines under total control of an artificial intelligence thought to understand the world and the physics of the body well enough in order to control the robot by a set of rules defining its behavior.
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Der, R., Martius, G. (2011). Introduction. In: The Playful Machine. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20253-7_1
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