Developers can build intelligent robots with Java, as it provides APIs for programming systems that can see, hear, speak, move, and even learn, using neural networks, which are algorithms that ...

The issues he’s highlighting really come down to product design. [Benjie] points out that programming robots is super hard, but it’s also hard in more than one way and for more than one reason.

A dedicated and talented user community has produced dozens of alternate programming environments for these robots, everything from Forth to C to SmallTalk.