Rodney Brooks
Australian-American roboticist who promotes situated AI and behavior-based robotics.
Most quoted
"The future is not something we enter; the future is something we create through our actions in robotics and AI."
— from Book: Flesh and Machines, 2002
"The biggest challenge in AI is not building intelligent machines, but building machines that we can trust."
— from AI and the Future of Work (Interview), 2017
"The future of robotics is not about building perfect machines, but about building machines that can adapt."
— from Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, 2002
All quotes by Rodney Brooks (105)
The world is its own best model.
Intelligence is determined by the dynamics of interaction with the world.
The situatedness of intelligence is crucial.
Representation is not the primary component of intelligence.
The world is its own best model, always up to date, always complete.
We don't need to build a model of the world; the world is its own model.
AI has been trying to build a brain, but it should be trying to build a body.
The problem with AI is that it's been trying to solve problems that don't exist.
Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder is usually a human.
We are not just brains in vats; we are bodies in the world.
The future of AI is not about building smarter computers, but about building more embodied ones.
Robots will not just be tools; they will be companions, colleagues, and even friends.
The line between human and machine will blur, and that's a good thing.
We are all cyborgs, whether we realize it or not.
The most interesting problems are the ones that are hard to define.
Don't try to solve the whole problem at once; break it down into smaller, manageable pieces.
The best way to understand intelligence is to build it.
Evolution doesn't build perfect systems; it builds systems that work well enough.
The world is messy, and our robots should be able to handle that messiness.
The real world is not a clean, abstract problem space.
Contemporaries of Rodney Brooks
Other Cognitive Sciences born within 50 years of Rodney Brooks (1954).