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Rodney Brooks

Computer Scientist / Engineer / Mathematician | * 12/30/1954 (69) | Adelaide, South Australia (Australia)
Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing 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 (formerly Heartland Robotics) and currently is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries

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Upon fathering triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology, revealing that all its discussions are about what it means to be human. ...

Welcome to the Machine

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2012 | 1h 25min
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Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s a lion t ...

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

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1997 | 3.5/5 | 1h 23min
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Conflict between man and machine has been a science fiction staple for over a century. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator the perceived threat posed by super-intelligent robots has been expl ...

We Need to Talk About A.I

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2020 | 3.0/5 | 1h 26min
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Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. ...

Horizon

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1964- | 3.7/5 | 1h per episode
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Awards & Nominations for Rodney Brooks

ACM Fellow AAAI Fellow Fellow of The Australian Academy of Science Corresponding Member of The Australian Academy of Science Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences IJCAI Computers and Thought Award Ieee Founders Medal

Movies with Rodney Brooks as Actor(2)

as himself2019 Machine
as Himself - Robot Scientist1997 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

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Production/Production Accountant2014 24 Hours in Police Custody

Full Name: Rodney Brooks
Citizenship: Australia
Born: Thursday, 12/30 1954 (December) in Adelaide, South Australia (Australia) (current age: 69 years + 117 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Stanford University, Flinders University
Employer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Other names for Rodney Brooks (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Rodney Allen Brooks"
"Rodney A. Brooks"
Rodney Brooks frequently works together with these people:
Errol Morris (2x, Crew)
Shondra Merrill (1x, Crew)
Mark Lipson (1x, Crew)
Tim Urban (1x, Cast)
Raymond A. Mendez (1x, Cast)
Kathy Trustman (1x, Crew)
Kate Darling (1x, Cast)
Pablos Holman (1x, Cast)
Toby Walsh (1x, Cast)
Iyad Rahwan (1x, Cast)
神谷 之康 (1x, Cast)
Hennie Clough (1x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:241830, Added: 08/07/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024