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I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.
~ Rodney Brooks
Academic
Australia
Became
Computer
Computer Science
Family
Finished
Got
Grew
Had
High
High School
Mathematics
No-One
Out
School
Science
Set
Smart
Stanford
Up
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I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
~ Rodney Brooks
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Became
Computer
Computer Science
Director
Founding
Intelligence
Lab
MIT
Moved
Science
Stanford
Teach
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I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.
~ Rodney Brooks
Anything
Better
Better Things
Boring
Dangerous
Dirty
Easier
Fields
Found
Getting
I See
Jobs
Just
Labor
Lot
People
People Say
Plain
Rid
Rise
Robotic
Say
See
Some
Some People
Sun
Technology
Than
Things
Were
You
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I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.
~ Rodney Brooks
Always
Genetic
Good
Happened
Head
Just
Lottery
Mathematics
Out
Some
Strangely
Weird
Won
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If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
~ Rodney Brooks
Able
Alive
Build
Just
Least
Machines
Other
Out
Principle
Should
Stuff
Then
Which
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If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.
~ Rodney Brooks
Albert
Albert Einstein
Better
Cheated
Einstein
Exactly
Feel
Going
Like
Look
Make
Robot
Smart
Then
User
You
Your
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If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.
~ Rodney Brooks
Able
Better
Interact
Machine
People
Surprising
Things
Want
You
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In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.
~ Rodney Brooks
Begin
Board
Build
Decided
Factory
Few
Just
Learn
May
Minutes
New
Off
Person
Rethink
Robotics
Robots
Started
Stepped
Train
Venture
Wanted
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In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.
~ Rodney Brooks
Aspect
Computers
Every
Future
Kitchen
Life
Lot
Made
More
No Sense
People
Robots
Sense
Sure
Them
Will
Would
Years
You
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It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society.
~ Rodney Brooks
Certain
Certain Things
Deployed
How
Limits
Much
Perhaps
Reasonable
Say
Should
Society
Technologies
Things
Understand
Used
Very
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One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.
~ Rodney Brooks
About
Autonomous
Cheap
Cleaner
Company
Designed
Great
Great Things
Robot
Things
Too
Vacuum
Which
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People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'
~ Rodney Brooks
Factory
Factory Worker
Had
Hope
Just
Kid
Out
People
Say
Turns
Worker
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Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.
~ Rodney Brooks
Colleges
Exactly
Except
Few
Fitted
Major
Robotics
Very
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So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.
~ Rodney Brooks
Because
Care
Come
Direction
Elderly
Heading
Help
Know
Maybe
Me
Out
People
Research
Robots
Someday
Take
Take Care
Them
Up
Use
Ways
Will
You
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The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.
~ Rodney Brooks
Benefits
Could
Having
Outweigh
Problems
Robots
Vastly
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The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.
~ Rodney Brooks
Attention
Because
Building
Doing
Important
Important Thing
Interact
Interacting
Most
Most Important Thing
Pays
Robot
Seeing
Socially
System
The Most Important
Thing
Understanding
Visual
You
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The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.
~ Rodney Brooks
Accidentally
Backyard
Build
Built
Going
Guy
Happen
Know
Like
Lone
Over
Question
Robot
Someone
Sort
Takes
Think
Us
Will
You
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Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?
~ Rodney Brooks
Accept
Ask
Big
Big Questions
Eventually
Make
Me
More
More And More
Need
Other
Over
People
Question
Questions
Rights
Robots
Take
Them
Two
Want
Will
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We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
~ Rodney Brooks
About
Accept
Biology
Certainly
Just
Machines
Modern
Molecular
Says
Us
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With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
~ Rodney Brooks
Around
Became
Being
Capabilities
Capable
Increased
Office
PCs
Programmers
Programs
Replace
Respected
Revolution
Tuned
Were
Workers
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