This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. In summary, for example, he touches on anthropomorphic robots from classic films and science fiction stories before studying the nuts and bolts of organizing intelligence in robots. The following overview, Murphy contrasts AI and engineering approaches and discusses what he calls the three paradigms of AI robotics: hierarchical, reactive, and hybrid deliberative / reactive. Later chapters explore multiagent scenarios, navigation and path-planning for mobile robots, and the basics of computer vision and range sensing.