Hi, I was talking to a professor about a undergrad thesis topic (learning intelligence for humanoid robots) and as the conversation went, I asked her if it involved neural network programming. She said no it is much simpler then that. She went on to mention a name of a algorithm/method which involves programming for reaction, and premeditative action. I can't recall what it was! If this sounds familar to anybody could you provide an answer to what type of learning algorithm/AI programming it is? thanks

temporal difference learning?

(in standard actor/critic form I would suppose)

Behaviour-based control (Subsumption architectures)?

ah, It seems like the answer is behavior-based AI, thanks for your help