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title: "Embodied robots · Artificial systems · Entities · Simulation Hypothesis"
url: https://simulation-hypothesis.com/entities/ai-robots
description: "Machines with sensors and actuators that act in the physical world."
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credit: "Ross Allan Dahl, Simulation Hypothesis (simulation-hypothesis.com)"
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# Embodied robots

Machines with sensors and actuators that act in the physical world. They often use layered reactive control instead of a central world model, so behaviour emerges from the loop between body and environment.

## Sources

* Brooks RA (1991) Intelligence without representation. Artif Intell 47(1-3):139-159\. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(91)90053-M.

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