I quite appreciated Rodney's paper from 1985 titled "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot" [1]. I'm sometimes wondering if mobile robotics would l

I quite appreciated Rodney's paper from 1985 titled "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot" [1]. I'm sometimes wondering if mobile robotics would look much different without this paper or if we would arrive to something similar anyway. I even asked Rodney Brooks whether the results of this paper were applied on some robot platform as a follow up research and received a very interesting reply [2]. I agree that I might have worded it poorly but it's still one of my favourite tweets. [1] https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a160833.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a160833.pdf [2] https://twitter.com/WeeklyRobotics/status/1057750342992052224 https://twitter.com/WeeklyRobotics/status/105775034299205222...