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- In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training. At the end of the post, after I have completed my...
2 months ago
- This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago younger me, and this post is one that I wrote for Manufacturing Engineering in March of 1988. It was for the last page of the trade magazine, in a regular feature titled “THE LAST WORD”. You can download a...
5 months ago
- Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots. There is a lot of hype about these two new (to most people) versions of AI and robots, and it has shifted all the major tech...
6 months ago
- Of course, I am filled with fear and anger at the political situation in the US, but we can’t forget about research and how it interplays with the innovation economy of the United States and other countries. The short answer is that it takes longer than anyone thinks to get to...
8 months ago
- Write-up of getting started with a CNC pen plotter...
9 months ago
- [You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social and see my publications etc., at https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks] This is my seventh annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and...
about 1 year ago
- This post is not about research or developing software for robots. Instead it is some tips on how to go about building robots for mass deployment and how to leverage those deployed robots for improving your product. The four tips are straightforward but I explain them more...
- I have recently blogged about my three laws of robotics. Here I talk about my three laws of Artificial Intelligence, about how people perceive AI systems, about how they operate in the world and how difficult it is to make them general purpose in any sense. When an AI system...
- Here are some of the things I’ve learned about robotics after working in the field for almost five decades. In honor of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, my two boyhood go-to science fiction writers, I’m calling them my three laws of robotics. The visual appearance of a robot...
over 3 years ago
- Project Overview From April 2022 to June 2022 I designed and built Rise of the Robots. The motivation for this project, was the past. I used to be a Flash Desig......
- I’d like to Introduce Rise of the Robots. 🤖 A Gatsby + Rive + Contentful powered creative, performant, and accessible demo. Along with designing and building t......
- LEGO...
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