Nouvelle AI is an approach to artificial intelligence that emphasizes embodied behavior and interaction with the real world rather than symbolic world models alone. It is associated with the idea that complex intelligence can emerge from simpler situated behaviors.
Nouvelle AI differs from classical AI by aiming to produce robots with intelligence levels similar to insects. Researchers believe that intelligence can emerge organically from simple behaviors as these intelligences interacted with the "real world", instead of using the constructed worlds which symbolic AIs typically needed to have programmed into them.