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Publications, Hans Moravec

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• When will computer hardware match the human brain?
  H. Moravec
  Journal of Transhumanism, Vol. 1, March, 1998.

• The Senses have No Future
  H. Moravec
  Proceedings of Der Sinn der Sinne International Congress, February, 1997.

• Fractal branching ultra-dexterous robots (Bush robots)
  H. Moravec, J. Easudes, and F. Dellaert
  NASA Advanced Concepts Research Project, December, 1996.

• Robot Spatial Perception by Stereoscopic Vision and 3D Evidence Grids
  H. Moravec
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-96-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1996. [Abstract]
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• Geisteskinder: Universelle Roboter: In vierzig Jahren haben sie uns uberholt
  H. Moravec
  C'T magazin fur computer technik, Vol. 1996, No. 6, June, 1996, pp. 98:104.

• Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
  H. Moravec
  Telepolis, June, 1996.

• Robot Evidence Grids
  M.C. Martin and H. Moravec
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-96-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [778 KB], ps.gz [1039 KB] copyrighted

• Korper, Roboter, Geist
  H. Moravec
  Kunstforum, Vol. 133, February, 1996, pp. 98:112.

• Book Review: Roger Penrose's Gravitonic Brains
  H. Moravec
  PSYCHE, Vol. 2, No. 1, May, 1995.

• Book Review: Brainmakers by David H. Freedman
  H. Moravec
  IEEE Spectrum, February, 1995.

• Robots: Shaping the Future
  H. Moravec
  Asiaweek, August, 1994, pp. 30-35.

• Birth of a superorganism
  H. Moravec
  IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 31, No. 5, May, 1994, pp. 12.

• El futuro de los robots
  H. Moravec
  Actualidad Technologica, Madrid, Spain, Vol. 7, No. 66,67, May, 1994, pp. 24.

• Das Zeitalter der Roboter
  H. Moravec
  GDI Impuls, Vol. 12, No. 1, March, 1994, pp. 54-65.

• Book Review: The Great 1980s AI Bubble: A Review of The Brain Makers, by H.P. Newquist
  H. Moravec
  AI Magazine, 1994, pp. 86-87.

• The Age of Robots
  H. Moravec
  Extro 1, Proceedings of the First Extropy Institute Conference on TransHumanist Thought, 1994, pp. 84-100.

• The Universal Robot
  H. Moravec
  The World of 2044: technological development and the future of society, Charles Sheffield, Marcello Alonso and Morton Kaplan, ed., Paragon House, 1994, pp. 27-40.

• Souls in Silicon
  H. Moravec and F. Pohl
  OMNI, Vol. 16, No. 2, November, 1993, pp. 66-76.

• Der technische Homunkulus
  H. Moravec
  Schweizerische Technische Zeitschrift, Vol. 9, No. 93, September, 1993, pp. 10-13.

• Pigs in Cyberspace
  H. Moravec
  Extropy, No. 10, January, 1993.

• Learning Sensor Models for Evidence Grids
  H. Moravec and M. Blackwell
  CMU Robotics Institute 1991 Annual Research Review, 1993, pp. 8-15.

• Mental Augmentation
  H. Moravec
  Wild Palms Reader, Roger Trilling, Stuart Swezey, ed., St. Martin's Press, 1993.

• Time Travel and Computing
  H. Moravec
  Extropy, No. 9, July, 1992, pp. 15-20.

• Letter from Moravec to Penrose
  H. Moravec
  Thinking Robots, an aware internet and cyberpunk librarians: the 1992 LITA president's program, Bruce Miller and Milton Wolf, ed., Library and Information Technology Association, 1992, pp. 51:58.

• Caution! Robot Vehicle!
  H. Moravec
  Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Theory of Computation, (John McCarthy Festschrift), Vladimir Lifschitz, ed., Academic Press, 1991, pp. 331-344.

• Book Review: Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics and the coming Robotopia by Frederik Schodt
  H. Moravec
  American Scientist, June, 1990, pp. 285-286.

• One small step for a Volksrobot
  H. Moravec
  Algorithm, Vol. 1, No. 3, April, 1990, pp. 14-17.

• Der Mensch als Maschine
  H. Moravec
  ZeitMagazin, No. 12, March, 1990, pp. 28-34.

• The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover
  H. Moravec
  Autonomous Robot Vehicles, I. J. Cox and G. T. Wilfong, ed., Springer-Verlag, 1990, pp. 407-41.

• Robotertraume
  H. Moravec
  GDI Impuls, Vol. 7, No. 4, December, 1989, pp. 3-16.

• The Robot as Liberation from Human Nature
  H. Moravec
  Interactions:10, December, 1989, pp. 32-42.

• A Bayesian Method for Certainty Grids
  H. Moravec and D.W. Cho
  AAAI 1989 Spring Symposium Series, Symposium on Mobile Robots, 1989.

• Certainty Grids for Sensor Fusion in Mobile Robots
  H. Moravec
  Sensor Devices and Systems for Robotics, 1989, pp. 243-276.

• Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway
  H. Moravec
  Artificial Life, Christopher G. Langton, ed., Addison Wesley, New York, Vol. VI, 1989, pp. 167-200.

• The Coming Divorce in Human Nature
  H. Moravec
  Whole Earth Review, 1989, pp. 12-16.

• Mind Children: the future of robot and human intelligence
  H. Moravec
  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October, 1988.

• Harvard Doesn't Publish Science Fiction: 1-Superdense Computers; 2-Time and Alternity by Computer; 3-The Harmonies of the Sphere
  H. Moravec
  New Destinies, Jim Baen, ed., Baen Books, Vol. III, February, 1988, pp. 212-247.

• Certainty Grids for Mobile Robots
  H. Moravec
  NASA/JPL Space Telerobotics Workshop, Vol. 1, January, 1987, pp. 307-312.

• Mobile Robots and General Intelligence
  H. Moravec
  MIT Sea Grant Program and Wallace Lecture Seminar, Norman Doelling and Elizabeth Harding, ed., January, 1987, pp. 181-199.

• Dualism from Reductionism
  H. Moravec
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on AI and the Human Mind, Dallas, TX, Vol. 2, 1987.

• Arbitration of Multiple Control Strategies for Mobile Robots
  H. Moravec, M. Kadonoff, F. Benayad-Cherif, A. Franklin, J. Maddox, L. Muller, and B. Sert
  SPIE Proceedings: Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Vol. 727, October, 1986.

• Book Review: Engines of Creation by Eric K. Drexler
  H. Moravec
  Technology Review, Vol. 89, No. 7, October, 1986, pp. 76-77.

• Towards Autonomous Vehicles
  H. Moravec
  CMU Robotics Institute 1984 Annual Research Review, CMU, September, 1985, pp. 33-50.

• Robots that Rove
  H. Moravec
  SIGBIO, Vol. 7, No. 2, June, 1985, pp. 13-15.

• Experiments and Thoughts on Visual Navigation
  C. Thorpe, L. Matthies, and H. Moravec
  Proceedings of 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, March, 1985, pp. 830 - 835. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [507 KB] copyrighted

• High Resolution Maps from Wide Angle Sonar
  H. Moravec and A.E. Elfes
  Proceedings of the 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, March, 1985, pp. 116 - 121. [Abstract]
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• Autonomous Mobile Robots, Annual Report
  H. Moravec, A. Elfes, C. Thorpe, L. Matthies, R.S. Wallace, P. Muir, D.H. Shin, and G. Podnar
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-86-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1985.
  Download: pdf [10391 KB] copyrighted

• First Results in Robot Road-Following
  R. Wallace, A. Stentz, C. Thorpe, H. Moravec, W.L. Whittaker, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1985.

• Machines with Mobility
  H. Moravec
  Robots, Salamander Books, London, England, 1985, pp. 66-79.

• The Rovers
  H. Moravec
  Robotics, Marvin Minsky, ed., Doubleday, 1985, pp. 123-145.

• Three Degrees for a Mobile Robot
  H. Moravec
  Proceedings of the ASME Conference on Computers in Engineering, August, 1984.

• Locomotion, Vision and Intelligence
  H. Moravec
  Robotics Research - The First International Symposium, MIT Press, 1984, pp. 215-224.

• The Rocket/Skyhook Combination
  H. Moravec and F.B. Carley
  L5 News, Vol. 8, No. 3, March, 1983, pp. 4-6.

• The CMU Rover
  H. Moravec
  Proceedings of AAAI-82, August, 1982, pp. 377-380.

• The Endless Frontier and The Thinking Machine
  H. Moravec
  The Endless Frontier, Vol. 2, January, 1982, pp. 374-397.

• 3D Graphics and the Wave Theory
  H. Moravec
  Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 3, August, 1981, pp. 289-296.

• Rover Visual Obstacle Avoidance
  H. Moravec
  proceedings of the seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August, 1981, pp. 785-790.

• High Wire Act
  H. Moravec and R.L. Forward
  Omni, July, 1981, pp. 44-47.

• Robot Rover Visual Navigation
  H. Moravec
  UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981.

• Obstacle Avoidance and Navigation in the Real World by a Seeing Robot Rover
  H. Moravec
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-80-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University & doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, September, 1980. [Abstract]
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• Cable Cars in the Sky
  H. Moravec
  The Endless Frontier, Jerry Pournelle, ed., Grosset & Dunlap, Ace books, Vol. 1, November, 1979, pp. 301-322.

• Fully Interconnecting Multiple Computers with Pipelined Sorting Nets
  H. Moravec
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 28, No. 10, October, 1979, pp. 795-798.

• Visual Mapping by a Robot Rover
  H. Moravec
  Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August, 1979, pp. 599-601.

• Final Report: Computer Visual Systems for Exploratory Vehicles
  H. Moravec, T.O. Binford, and D.B. Gennery
  April, 1979.

• Today's Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Future
  H. Moravec
  Analog, Vol. 99, No. 2, February, 1979, pp. 59-84.

• Skyhook!
  H. Moravec
  L5 News, Vol. 3, No. 8, August, 1978, pp. 1-3.

• A Non-Synchronous Orbital Skyhook
  H. Moravec
  The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 4, December, 1977, pp. 307-322.

• Towards Automatic Visual Obstacle Avoidance
  H. Moravec
  Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August, 1977, pp. 584.

• Cart Project Progress Report
  H. Moravec and D.B. Gennery
  July, 1976.

• Final Report: Research in Visual Navigation
  H. Moravec
  January, 1975.

• Multi-dimensional Security Program for a Generalized Information Retrieval System
  H. Moravec and J.M. Carroll
  Proc. AFIPS 1971 Fall Joint Computer Conference, October, 1971, pp. 571-577.

• A Lisp-like Language Based on Variably Sized List Elements
  H. Moravec
  master's thesis, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1971.