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 ...

An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt Roomba maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robot assistants is 'pure fantasy thinking'

Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...
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Rodney Brooks exposes harsh realities behind Musk’s robot dreams

Could the world’s “biggest product” turn out to be its biggest fantasy? Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of iRobot and a pioneer ...

MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk for 'pure fantasy' vision of humanoid robot assistants: '[They] will be long gone and mostly conveniently forgotten'

"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.

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 ...
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Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.