Rodney Brooks | |
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 Brooks in 2021 | |
| Born | Rodney Allen Brooks 30 December 1954 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Stanford University Flinders University |
| Awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Robotics |
| Institutions | Stanford University MIT |
| Doctoral students | Lynne Parker Maja Matarić Charles Lee Isbell Jr. Cynthia Breazeal Yoky Matsuoka Holly Yanco |
| Website | http://rodneybrooks.com/ |
Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954[1][2]) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing 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[3] 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).[4]
- ^ "Rodney Brooks | Biography, Robots, & Facts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
- ^ "Rodney Brooks". NNDB. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ Companies – CSAIL People – MIT
- ^ "Startup Founded by Cognitive Scientist Gary Marcus and Roboticist Rodney Brooks Raises $15 Million to Make Building Smarter Robots Easier". Forbes.