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Marvin Minsky

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Marvin Minsky

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Minsky is describing how they approached solving challenges in robotics by incorporating various cognitive functions like seeing, moving, thinking, and organizing tasks. He also mentions using a type of learning that involves understanding structures, inspired by the work of Patrick Winston.

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