Robotics

Embedding Autonomous Agents in Resource-Constrained Robotic Platforms

Kari Jaaskelainen

08 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

Tiny robot, smart decisions—no cloud needed

Researchers embedded an autonomous agent (written in AgentSpeak) into a palm-sized, two-wheeled robot that navigates a maze using only its onboard sensors and reasoning. No remote controller and no constant internet required.

Fast thinking: Each decision phase took under 1 millisecond.
Real-time results: The robot solved the maze in 59 seconds with 287 reasoning cycles.
Low resources: High-level AI control ran smoothly on constrained hardware.

Why it matters: Bringing smart decision-making directly onto devices can make robots and IoT gadgets more responsive, reliable, and private—especially in dynamic or spotty-network environments.

Paper: Embedding Autonomous Agents in Resource-Constrained Robotic Platforms by Negar Halakou, Juan F. Gutierrez, Ye Sun, Han Jiang, Xueming Wu, Yilun Song, Andres Gomez. Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04191v1

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04191v1

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