Rodney Brooks is co-founder and chief technology officer of Robust.AI. He previously co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics and directed MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and later CSAIL. His research helped establish behavior-based robotics.123
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Robust.AI
Brooks co-founded Robust.AI and serves as CTO, focusing on practical warehouse and workplace robotics rather than AGI hype, as he has argued in recent interviews.23
iRobot, Rethink, and MIT
He co-founded iRobot (Roomba) and later Rethink Robotics, and led MIT's AI Lab / CSAIL. His home page and institutional histories document those roles.1
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Where they work
- Robust.AI 1 person in the wiki
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