Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.' — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them -… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't.… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
I always tell people, it's never too late to start saving for retirement. It's not that important how much you have already… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are.… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
I always tell people, it's never too late to start saving for retirement. It's not that important how much you have already saved. What's… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share
