“I like to look at what everyone is doing, find some common thing that they’re all assuming implicitly,” Rodney Brooks said, “and negate that thing.” Brooks, a pioneering roboticist, was speaking ...

Famed roboticist and iRobot founder Rodney Brooks has sounded the alarm on a humanoid robot investment bubble. He’s not the only one. In a recent essay, Brooks calls out the billions of venture ...

Rodney Brooks, the roboticist who co-founded iRobot, has issued a warning: The vision of humanoid robots as catchall assistants is “pure fantasy thinking”. This comes as investors pour billions into ...