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19861980s
Rodney Brooks
Roboticist who argued against internal symbolic mapping in favor of 'behavior-based' robotics.
Organizations
MITiRobotRethink Robotics
Major Achievements
- •Published 'Elephants Don't Play Chess' (1990) and developed the subsumption architecture.
- •Pioneered the idea that 'the world is its own best model'—robots should sense and react instead of building complex internal logic maps.
- •Co-founded iRobot, commercializing the behavior-based Roomba.
Key Papers
- A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot
Rodney A. Brooks · IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation · 1986
- Intelligence Without Representation
Rodney A. Brooks · Artificial Intelligence · 1991
Videos
Chatbots Decoded Interview: Rodney Brooks
Computer History Museum
Rodney Brooks: How robots will invade our lives
TED