High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Luc Steels is a Belgian scientist, and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also heading the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. Steels, along with Rodney Brooks (his one-time office mate), was one of the initiators of the behaviour-based robotics approach to artificial intelligence and is closely linked to artificial life. He also designed Fluid Construction Grammar.