[seanwilson]

> Moreover, the real world is (for practical purposes) continuous. The robot would have the option of engaging one of it's motor for one millisecond, or two milliseconds, or three milliseconds, etc.

Are there not similar techniques to search trees that are used here? Obviously you wouldn't enumerate all options but you'd think you could guess at some practical ones then guess options between the most promising. Either way, it just feels "imagination" is making it sound like an entirely new approach when heuristically pruned search trees could be described in the same way to me.

[red75prime]

Ability to generate candidate paths in continuous search space is a bit more general than pruning prebuilt search tree.

Search tree is an approximation of continuous search problems and needs to be built by someone. This approach builds its own search tree.

[red75prime]

It also paves the way to algorithms which can solve problems by repurposing available actions for achieving unintended goals, and by creating new high-level actions from low-level ones.

That is solving problems creatively.