Rodney’s factory robot revolution | Manufacturer’s Monthly

by Hallie Siegel

07 May 2015

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“Rodney Brooks’s robotic innovations have found their way into places as varied as the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, the radioactive ruins of Fukushima, the surface of Mars, and even onto our livingroom floors.

The Adelaide-born MIT Professor Emeritus is right now concerned with the world’s factories, though. He believes the need for help – in the form of factory robots – has never been greater.”

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