Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217
Rodney Brooks shares his journey building the first mobile robots and the evolution of robotics from simple reactive systems to complex autonomous machines.
Rodney Brooks
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Rodney Brooks is a pioneering roboticist and MIT professor who served as director of CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). He is the co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Robust.AI, and has fundamentally shaped the field of robotics through his innovative approaches to machine intelligence and autonomous systems.