For Rodney Brooks, thinking up a better way to build robots was the easy part. It took him a dozen years and 14 failed business strategies to turn his idea into Roomba, the first profitable household ...

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the ...

A high-profile robotics expert thinks Elon Musk's AI ambitions are a pipe dream, according to Fortune. Rodney Brooks was the co-founder of iRobot, the creator of the home robot vacuum Roomba. He ...

“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 ...

If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, you’ve seen them: sleek, metallic bipeds performing backflips in China, ...