Author: Rodney Brooks

Quotes

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

- Rodney Brooks

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

- Rodney Brooks

People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'

People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'

- Rodney Brooks

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.

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

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

- Rodney Brooks

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

- Rodney Brooks

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