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title: "Thoughts About a Visually Guided Grasp Reflex"
authors:
  - "Richard L. Didday"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/81"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/0081.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1973
pages: "658-663"
track: "Perception for Robots"
keywords:
---

# Thoughts About a Visually Guided Grasp Reflex

Richard L. Didday

*Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 658-663.

## Abstract

This paper describes a preliminary attempt to apply organizational principles taken from animal perc~ptual processes to the problem of providing a robot v1sual grasp reflex. The 9oal is to provide a cheap, rapid mechanism for directing a hand/arm to grasp one of several arbitrarily shaped objects in the visual scene. A program which implements a simple form of such a reflex is described.