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Rodney Brooks Quotes

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat Picture Quote #1

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Picture Quote #1

I’d rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal Picture Quote #1

People don’t say, ‘I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.’ Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Are those ‘terrible’ machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn’t be torturing people with? Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play ‘Pong,’ a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers there, the biggest problems in mainland China are recruiting and retention. There isn’t an endless supply of cheap labor anymore in China. And it’s now true that the labor rates in Mexico are lower than in China Picture Quote #1

If you’re doing something radically new, you need a team that’s willing to go on a ride that’s very different from anything they’ve encountered before Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else Picture Quote #1

I’d rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal Picture Quote #1

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I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands Picture Quote #1

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work Picture Quote #1

When I look out in the future, I can’t imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don’t have robots everywhere Picture Quote #1

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Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat (Rodney Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) I’d rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal. (Rodney Brooks Quotes) People don’t say, ‘I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.’ (Rodney Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) Are those ‘terrible’ machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn’t be torturing people with? (Rodney Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play ‘Pong,’ a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that. (Rodney Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics (Rodney Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers there, the biggest problems in mainland China are recruiting and retention. There isn’t an endless supply of cheap labor anymore in China. And it’s now true that the labor rates in Mexico are lower than in China (Rodney Brooks Quotes) If you’re doing something radically new, you need a team that’s willing to go on a ride that’s very different from anything they’ve encountered before (Rodney Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else (Rodney Brooks Quotes) I’d rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal (Rodney Brooks Quotes) I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands (Rodney Brooks Quotes) Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work (Rodney Brooks Quotes) When I look out in the future, I can’t imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don’t have robots everywhere (Rodney Brooks Quotes)