Decades Quote by Rodney Brooks

“My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.”

Rodney Brooks

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If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going…

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Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

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When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

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

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Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they…

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You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are.…

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Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight…

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

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I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that…

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

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The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention…

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

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