This vignette represents how we could imagine the future when fiction movies made us believe that the 21st century would be full of robots working and living with us (see Fig. 1.1). Today, looking around us, we can discover that great scientific advances have improved our lives, but they are still beyond the described scenario. Thus, we can wonder: Will such an idealized future be, some day, the present? Could engineers reproduce, or at least imitate, human intelligence?
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(2007). A Robotic Future. In: Multiple Abstraction Hierachies for Mobile Robot Operation in Large Environments. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72690-6_1
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