Rodney Brooks is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He chatted with me this morning about my deep-seated obsession to have a humanoid robot and HAL-like AI.
Prof Brooks will be speaking at the Singularity Summit in California next month. Get your tickets here.
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Cam I just finished listening to this show, I thought it was really good. I too am really skeptical about the whole hollywood-ised ideal of the singularity, HAL, Walking robots etc and I was a) pleasantly surprised to hear someone tackle you on that and b) really interested on his robots are everywhere vision of the future. Loved it.