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. Rodney Brooks autonomouscheapclean Change image and share on social
The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems. Rodney Brooks benefitoutweighproblem Change image and 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
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