The Artificial Intelligence Center is a laboratory in the Information and Computing Sciences Division of

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. It was founded in 1966 by

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and studies

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. One of their early projects was

Shakey the Robot Shakey the Robot was the first general-purpose mobile robot able to reason about its own actions. While other robots would have to be instructed on each individual step of completing a larger task, Shakey could analyze commands and break them down ...

, the first general-purpose mobile

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. More recently, the center funded early development of

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and

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. The center has also provided the military with various technology.SRI International about page
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