Rodney Brooks

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Australian roboticist

Australia ScientistsBorn 1954 · age 71

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Rodney Allen Brooks is an Australian roboticist and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science who popularized the actionist approach to robotics.

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Brooks in 2005

Robot at Rethink Robotics, 2013. Brooks is at the right in the lineup behind the robot. At left is Steve Jurvetson, the photographer.

Awards 8

2023IEEE Founders Medal

2006Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

2006Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science

2005ACM Fellow

1991IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

1990AAAI Fellow

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Connected to Rodney 6

Errol MorrisAlso in Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

Michael AtiyahAlso won Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science

Robin WarrenAlso won Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Mildred DresselhausAlso won IEEE Founders Medal

Daphne KollerAlso won IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

Edward FeigenbaumAlso won AAAI Fellow

About this person

Rodney Allen Brooks 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 and is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI.

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Australia