Concept

Rodney Brooks

Overview

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science who popularized the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics) and is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).

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Philosophers who discussed Rodney Brooks

• Hubert Dreyfus

Related ideas

• Artificial intelligence
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Stanford University
• Behavior
• Computation

Place in the tradition

Part of Embodied cognition.

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