"An Imitation of Life", W. Grey Walter, Scientific American, 182(5), May 1950, 42--45.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....prescribed ranges, no matter what the uncontrolled variations within the environment. With regards to embodiment there were some experiments along these lines. Many cybernetic models of organisms were rather abstract demonstrations of homeostasis, but some were concerned with physical robots. Walter 50, 51, 53] 12 describes robots built on cybernetic principles which demonstrated goal seeking behavior, homeostasis, and learning abilities. The complexity and abilities of Walter s physically embodied machines rank with the purely imaginary ones in the first half dozen chapters of [Braitenberg ....

"An Imitation of Life", W. Grey Walter, Scientific American, 182(5), May 1950, 42--45.

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