As engineers increasingly turn to machine learning methods to develop adaptable robots, new work makes progress on safety and performance guarantees for robots operating in novel environments with diverse types of obstacles and constraints. (1)

Computers trying to navigate into the unknown.

Like humans before them. Like gods before them. Like God in the beginning.

The Unknown. As opposed to what?

Look at your feet. Where are you going? Where else have you ever been if not where you have already been?

Can't you see?

You have just forgotten your name.

(God)

In the beginning there was nothing.

And yet you started walking...