Behavior based robotics and artificial intelligence is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates physics, computer science, engineering, behavior analysis, biology, and philosophy. It is primarily concerned with systems that learn to behave through interactions with their environment.
1943 - Skinner Discovers Shaping
1950 - Alan Turing develops the "Turing Test"
1951 - W. Grey Walter exhibits his first robots; Elmer and Elsie at the Festival of Britain
1950s-mid 1960s - focus on games geometrical problems, symbolic algebra, and theorem proving
late 1960s-1970s - focus on "blocks" simple concepts worth learning, giving sets and subsets which formal descriptions of the world would be contained in.
1997 - "Amelia", the first Skinnerbot is shaped by David S. Touretzky using operant conditioning
2005 - Cornell University created self-replicating robots.
May 28, 2009 - Behavior Analysis and Robotics ABAI SIG founded.
Behavior Analysis and Robotics ABAI SIG