Shakey

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Shakey is a Ground from SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). It is built for Research, Inspection.

Shakey is a first-generation autonomous mobile robot created by SRI International, representing the organization's vision for combining artificial intelligence with autonomous robotics. First introduced in 1966, the robot became the world's first general-purpose mobile robot capable of perceiving its surroundings, reasoning about its actions, and autonomously planning how to accomplish tasks. Unlike earlier robots that required explicit step-by-step instructions, Shakey could analyze high-level commands, create plans, navigate rooms, avoid obstacles, manipulate simple objects, and execute actions with minimal human intervention. Its development marked one of the earliest demonstrations of embodied artificial intelligence and reflected the beginning of the broader industry shift toward general-purpose robotics, where perception, planning, learning, and autonomous decision-making became as important as mechanical automation.

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