Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks
Brooks in 2021
Born
Rodney Allen Brooks

(1954-12-30) 30 December 1954 (age 69)
NationalityAustralian
Alma materStanford University
Flinders University
AwardsIJCAI Computers and Thought Award
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics
InstitutionsStanford University
MIT
Doctoral studentsLynne Parker
Maja Matarić
Charles Lee Isbell Jr.
Cynthia Breazeal
Yoky Matsuoka
Holly Yanco
Websitehttp://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 currently[when?] is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).[4]

  1. ^ "Rodney Brooks | Biography, Robots, & Facts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Rodney Brooks". NNDB. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  3. ^ Companies – CSAIL People – MIT
  4. ^ "Startup Founded by Cognitive Scientist Gary Marcus and Roboticist Rodney Brooks Raises $15 Million to Make Building Smarter Robots Easier". Forbes.

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