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Autonomous Agents

• Braitenberg, Valentino. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. (For a pdf see https://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/crabbe/SI475/current/vehicles.pdf )
• Reynolds, Craig W. “Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters.” Proceedings of Game Developers Conference, 1999, https://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1999/gdc99steer.html .
• Animated speculative design for city traffic with autonomous cars (at 25'30''):
  Dunn, Anthony. “Not Here, Not Now.” Kyoto Design Lab, KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, April 1, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chBiMec7KtM&feature=youtu.be&t=1534.

Noise

• Peters, Keith. The Noise Series. BIT-101, n.d. https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/07/the-noise-series/.

Robots and Humans

• Mori, Masahiro, Karl F. MacDorman, and Norri Kageki. “The Uncanny Valley.” IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine 19, no. 2 (June 2012): 98–100. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2012.2192811.
• Cuthbert, Olivia. “Saudi Arabia Becomes First Country to Grant Citizenship to a Robot.” Arab News, October 25, 2017. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1183166/saudi-arabia.

Empathy with Robots

• Eliza, the rule-based psychoanalyst can in Apple OS directly called from the command line. Open the terminal, write emacs, then press enter. After Emacs has loded press shift+ esc. Type xdoctor, press return.
• "Empathy with robots"; how do you feel when Atlas, the robot gets hit by the human Boston Dynamics, Atlas or when the "dog" robot is kicked?: Boston Dynamics Dog robots

Studio

All code files can be found here: https://github.com/jbenno/nyuad_decoding_nature/tree/master/Files/05

• Perlin noise
• A boid-class for an agent with steering behaviour as described in Reynold's paper
• Boids following a flow field

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