Firsts Quotes by Rodney Brooks

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

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

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

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

— Rodney Brooks

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

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

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

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

— Rodney Brooks

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

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

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

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

— Rodney Brooks