I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers there, the biggest problems in mainland China are recruiting and retention. There isn't an endless supply of cheap… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
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 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
