Nils Nilsson

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Nils Nilsson

AI researcher

  • made significant contributions to artificial intelligence
  • published extensively on robotics and AI

Nils John Nilsson was a prominent artificial intelligence researcher known for his work on robotics and artificial intelligence.

Milestones

  • The Robot That Stopped to Think
    The Dawn of AI Robotics
    The Robot That Stopped to Think

    SRI International built Shakey, the first mobile robot that could perceive its environment, plan a sequence of actions, and reason about how to carry them out — proving machines could operate autonomously in the real world.

    1966