Rodney Brooks Biography

Rodney Allen Brooks is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics.Rodney is the founder of iRobot, makers of the Roomba vacuum, the founder and CTO of Rethink Robotics, whose mission is to apply advanced robotic intelligence to manufacturing and physical labor. Its first robots: the versatile two-armed Baxter and one-armed Sawyer. He has pubished many papers in computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, and artificial life. His most recent book was Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us. Rodney is the former director of CSAIL, MIT's Computers Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Rodney is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Australian Academy of Science, The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the ACM, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Toyota Research Institute, and a member of the Visiting Committee of the NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology).

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