Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks | |
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 Brooks in 2021 | |
| Born | Rodney Allen Brooks 30 December 1954 Adelaide, Australia |
| Education | Stanford University Flinders University |
| Awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Robotics |
| Workplaces | Stanford University MIT |
Doctoral students | Lynne Parker Maja Matarić Charles Lee Isbell Jr. Cynthia Breazeal Yoky Matsuoka Holly Yanco |
| Website | rodneybrooks |
Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science who popularized the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He is a founder and former chief technical officer of iRobot and co-founder, chairman and chief technical officer of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics) and is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).