William Grey Walter citations

William Grey Walter, né le 19 février 1910 à Kansas City et mort le 6 mai 1977 est un neurophysiologiste britannique d'origine américaine. Pionnier de la cybernétique, il est resté célèbre pour ses robots tortues. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. février 1910 – 6. mai 1977
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William Grey Walter: Citations en anglais

“Some of these patterns of performance were calculable, though only as types of behaviour, in advance; some were quite unforeseen.”

Source: The Living Brain (1953), p. 130 : Note about the recording of the behavior of a complex system

“[A]n electro-mechanical creature which behaves so much like an animal that it has been known to drive a not usually timid lady upstairs to lock herself in her bedroom, an interesting blend of magic and science.”

Source: The Living Brain (1953), p. 82 : Description of the behavior of his first autonomous turtle robots, called Tortoise or Machina speculatrix.

“[Walter even gave the tortoises a mock-biological name, Machina speculatrix] because they illustrate particularly the exploratory, speculative behaviour that is so characteristic of most animals.”

Source: An imitation of life (1950), p. 43 as cited in: Owen Holland (2003) " The first biologically inspired robots http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/holland02first.pdf"