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Rodney Brooks

Roboticist/AI researcher

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"Some roboticists aren't convinced by this strategy. 'To think we can teach dexterity to a machine without ... being able to measure touch sensations ... is probably dumb [and] an

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  • Billy Perrigo — Senior AI correspondent, TIME

    • Wrote aboutmention · secondhand · Oct 9, 2025 — The Robot in Your Kitchen — "Some roboticists aren't convinced by this strategy. 'To think we can teach dexterity to a machine without ... being able to measure touch sensations ... is probably dumb [and] an

  • Lex Fridman — Host, Lex Fridman Podcast, Independent

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Sep 4, 2021 — Rodney Brooks: Robotics — "Rodney Brooks is a roboticist, former head of CSAIL at MIT, and co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Robust.AI." — confirming him as the guest on the Lex Fridman Podcast ep

  • Gary Marcus — Writer, Marcus on AI; scientist, Substack

    • Wrote aboutmention · secondhand · Jun 6, 2019 — Robust.AI launches to build an industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots (co-founded with Gary Marcus) — "Coming from different perspectives, Marcus (cognitive science) and Brooks (robotics) have been writing for the last several years about the perils of deep learning, and why it had