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Rodney Brooks on the future of robotics and AI
Sabine Hauert
29 Aug 2018
If you follow the robotics community on the twittersphere, you'll have noticed that Rodney Brooks is publishing a series of essays on the future of robotics and AI which has been gathering wide attent...
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200th Episode Special, with Rodney Brooks
Podcast team
22 Jan 2016
Transcript below.
In this episode, we celebrate our 200th episode! That’s over 6000 minutes of robot goodness and nearly 8 years releasing interviews with your favorite roboticists. The podcast...
Livestream: Rodney Brooks, Abhinav Gupta, Andrew McAfee on AI and the rise of robots
Robohub Editors
27 Feb 2015
Livestream of the Council of Foreign Relations' Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology starting 02/27/2015 at 12:45 EST....
Rethink Robotics gets $26.6 million Christmas gift
Frank Tobe
08 Jan 2015
UPDATED Jan 8: In an unannounced funding discovered by Boston Globe reporter Scott Kirsner, [tweetquote]Rethink Robotics sold equity and received $26.6 million a few days before Christmas[/tweetquote]...
Over 70,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day
Frank Tobe
20 Nov 2014
Just last month Rod Brooks chided me that robotic vacuum cleaners were already mainstream in response to what I had written: that they had just recently moved from niche to mainstream partly because ...
Rethinking iRobot, Samsung and Dyson robotic vacuum cleaners
Frank Tobe
29 Oct 2014
At a break in a conference in San Diego, I was sitting enjoying my tea, when up walked Rodney Brooks (of Rethink Robotics and Baxter fame) and said (with a mischievious smile):
I have a bone to pick ...
Rethink Robotics is downsizing
Frank Tobe
14 Dec 2013
Although Rethink Robotics is downsizing, their action is not indicative of the robotics industry, which is booming and hiring.
The Boston Globe reported that Rethink Robotics, maker of the $22,000 ...
Startup Series #5: Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2013
Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna.
It’s not every day you get to ask pioneering robot startup founders about their journey. The Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vien...
Low-cost robots like Baxter, UR5 and UR10 successfully entering small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Frank Tobe
14 May 2013
Much has been said about the need to augment the skills and increase the productivity of small factory workers by using robotic assistants called co-robots. Europe funded an SME (Small and Medium-size...
Robots and the economy: Red herrings, or canaries in a coal mine?
Matt Beane
13 Apr 2013
Recent economic trends are perplexing. Corporate profits are up. Productivity is up. Jobs and pay for the average worker have crashed, and are recovering slower than in any other decade on record. ...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks
Florian Röhrbein
05 Apr 2013
This is the first in a four-part interview series about collaboration between academia and industry, conducted by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. W...
Updated Robotics Roadmap presented to US congress
Frank Tobe
22 Mar 2013
Henrik Christensen, the KUKA Chair of Robotics at GA Tech and Chairman of the Roadmap project, Rodney Brooks, CEO of Rethink Robotics, Pete Wurman, CTO of Kiva Systems, and Russ Angold, CTO of Ekso Bi...
CBS News 60 Minutes provides new definition of robots
Frank Tobe
14 Jan 2013
CBS News Reporter Steve Kroft interviews Rodney Brooks at ReThink Robotics.
Click on the image to see the segment.
On Sunday, January 13, CBS News 60 Minutes reported on robots. Their focal po...
Rodney Brooks speaking at the CMU Robotics Institute
John Payne
15 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/RDvgNB2OZxI
Speaking at CMU Robotics Institute as part of their RI Seminar Series, Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics (originally Heartland Robo...
Rethink Robotics, with Rodney Brooks
Podcast team
05 Oct 2012
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In today’s episode we speak with Rodney Brooks at the offices of Rethink Robotics about their first product Baxter, his ambition to revolutionize manu...
Rethink Robotics launches Baxter the Robot
Frank Tobe
19 Sep 2012
Yesterday was the launch of Rethink Robotics' Baxter shop assistant robot.
Many reporters, including myself, saw Baxter at Rethink's headquarters in Boston in the past two months but were embargoed...
A Robot with a delicate touch
Andra Keay
18 Sep 2012
Researchers are developing less threatening machines that can mingle safely with humans. One, called Baxter, will be on sale in October.
See on www.nytimes.com...
Rethink Robotics: Baxter
Andra Keay
18 Sep 2012
Astute. Aware. Affordable. Not words commonly associated with robots. But Baxter, our flagship product, changes all that.
See on rethinkrobotics.com...
Why robot startups now? Part 2
Andra Keay
11 May 2012
2. Broader Financial Climate
A positive indicator for robotics startups is the improving financial climate. There are signs that the US housing market is stabilizing. Fannie Mae, the government bac...
Robots are good but roboticists are better!
Andra Keay
20 Apr 2012
MEGA Startup Weekend proved that you can mix startups and robots together and build new robot businesses. Now we need to work out how to repeat the success. It’s clear now that having real robot pla...
