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
Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws. — 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
Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics. — 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 saved. What's… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
