Rodney Brooks quotes

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people. (Rodney Brooks)
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. View quote
Rodney Brooks
Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics. View quote
Rodney Brooks
Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time. View quote
Rodney Brooks
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. View quote
Rodney Brooks
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. View quote
Rodney Brooks
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? View quote
Rodney Brooks