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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.

Robotics pioneer says the field has lost its way

Robust.AI co-founder Rodney Brooks, a pioneering roboticist and co-creator of the widely selling Roomba robot vacuum, ...

The West has woken up to China’s threat far too late

Giving businesses the freedom to do their thing while we maintain national security is much more difficult than it looks. Two ...
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Humanoid robot hype meets hard engineering and market reality

Investors should remain disciplined and back companies that have realistic goals based on economics, not hype,” warns Daiva Rakauskaitė of Aneli Capital, as investment dollars flow into humanoid ...

iRobot founder says company's bankruptcy revealed a new kind of competitor: 'the Chinese fast follower'

As iRobot's founder Colin Angle looks back on its path to bankruptcy, he says it was hard to overcome competitors in China.