Animat

Animat are artificial animals; the term is a contraction of "animal" and "materials"[1] (and, coincidentally, also the third-person indicative present of the Latin verb animō[2] which means to "animate, give or bring life"[3]). The term includes physical robots and virtual simulations. The animat model includes features of a simple animal capable of interacting with its environment. It is, therefore, designed to simulate the ability to associate certain signals from the environment within a learning phase that indicate a potential for cognitive structure.[4]

Animat research, a subset of Artificial Life studies, has become rather popular since Rodney Brooks' seminal paper "Intelligence without representation".

  1. ^ Bruyninckx, Herman; Preucil, Libor; Kulich, Miroslav (2008). European Robotics Symposium 2008. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 23. ISBN 9783540783152.
  2. ^ "Animo" at Verbix Latin Verb Conjugator. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
  3. ^ "Animo" at Latdict Latin Dictionary and Grammar Resources. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Fath, Brian D. (2018). Encyclopedia of Ecology, Volume I. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 604. ISBN 9780444637680.