Rodney Brooks

Roboticist

1954-12-30

Rodney Brooks is an Australian roboticist and entrepreneur. He is known for influential work in behavior-based robotics and for helping shape modern approaches to embodied artificial intelligence. Brooks has also founded and led robotics companies in commercial automation.

Quotes by Rodney Brooks

In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.
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If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.
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With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
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One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.
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The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.
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