I think Brooks' Cog initiative was an attempt to 'ground' the robot's perceptions of the physical world into forming a rich scalable representation model. But

I think Brooks' Cog initiative was an attempt to 'ground' the robot's perceptions of the physical world into forming a rich scalable representation model. But it looks like that line of investigation ended ~2003 with Brooks' retirement. Too bad, given the seeming suitability of using deep nets to implement it. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/cog/overview.html http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/cog/o...