In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them. Rodney Brooks aspectcomputerfuture share on social
I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Rodney Brooks artificialcomputerdirector Change image and share on social
Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics. Rodney Brooks aspectexperiencehand Change image and share on social
Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws. Rodney Brooks backbagbiomolecule Change image and share on social
The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen. Rodney Brooks accidentallybackyardbuild share on social
Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that. Rodney Brooks computerembedgame share on social