An architecture for robotic control, based on AugmentedFiniteStateMachines assembled into a hierarchy of behaviors. The basis for RodneyBrooks' BehaviorLanguage, which has recently been used to create Has''''''Bro's My''''''Real''''''Baby product http://www.generation5.org/content/2001/mrb.asp?Print=1 . Shortly to be used to create My''''''Real''''''Lover and My''''''Real''''''Accountant. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/subsump/arch.html ---- CategoryArtificialIntelligence