He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

Rodney Brooks exposes the fatal flaw in Musk’s robot dream

Is it possible to have a robot achieve human-level dexterity just by watching video tutorials? To answer these questions, I talked to Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of iRobot and one of the leading ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

Rodney Brooks exposes harsh realities behind Musk’s robot dreams

Could the world’s “biggest product” turn out to be its biggest fantasy? Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of iRobot and a pioneer ...
The Robot Report

Looking back at iRobot’s diversification attempts through the years

We look back at some of the many robots that iRobot developed in addition to the Roomba over the past 35 years.

MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk for 'pure fantasy' vision of humanoid robot assistants: '[They] will be long gone and mostly conveniently forgotten'

"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.

Roomba-maker iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks gives 'biggest reason' why humanoid robots cannot be like humans, sends message to Elon Musk

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks warns that the vision of humanoid robots as general assistants is unrealistic due to a biological barrier: dexterity. H ...