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Rodney Brooks exposes the fatal flaw in Musk’s robot dream

Is it possible to have a robot achieve human-level dexterity just by watching video tutorials? To answer these questions, I talked to Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of iRobot and one of the leading ...
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Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit, but skepticism remains

ROBOTS HAVE LONG BEEN seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors - too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, ...

He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...

Roomba-maker iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks gives 'biggest reason' why humanoid robots cannot be like humans, sends message to Elon Musk

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks warns that the vision of humanoid robots as general assistants is unrealistic due to a biological barrier: dexterity. H ...
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Flesh and machines : how robots will change us / Rodney A. Brooks

Dances with machines -- The quest for an artificial creature -- Planetary ambassadors -- It's 2001 already -- Machines to live with -- Where am I? -- We are special -- We are not special -- Them and ...