Rodney Brooks
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Australian roboticist
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- PhD Computer Science Stanford University
- Masters Computer Science Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rodney Allen Brooks is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics and currently is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI .
Rodney Brooks's Published Works
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Published Works
- A robust layered control system for a mobile robot (1986) (9243)
- Intelligence without Representation (1991) (5221)
- Intelligence Without Reason (1991) (2214)
- Elephants don't play chess (1990) (1461)
- A Robot that Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network (1989) (922)
- Symbolic Reasoning Among 3-D Models and 2-D Images (1981) (812)
- New Approaches to Robotics (1991) (737)
- Solving the find-path problem by good representation of free space (1982) (736)
- The cog project: building a humanoid robot (1999) (648)
- A subdivision algorithm in configuration space for findpath with rotation (1983) (630)
- Learning to Coordinate Behaviors (1990) (484)
- Building brains for bodies (1995) (474)
- Model-Based Three-Dimensional Interpretations of Two-Dimensional Images (1981) (410)
- Artificial Life and Real Robots (1992) (386)
- Achieving Artificial Intelligence through Building Robots (1986) (378)
- Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI (1999) (377)
- The Intelligent Room project (1997) (293)
- Humanoid robots (2002) (284)
- Planning Collision- Free Motions for Pick-and-Place Operations (1983) (276)
- Symbolic Error Analysis and Robot Planning (1982) (262)
- Visual map making for a mobile robot (1985) (228)
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: a Robot Invasion of the Solar System (1989) (223)
- The Behavior Language: User''s Guide (1990) (209)
- Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool (2000) (204)
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (2002) (200)
- Visually-guided obstacle avoidance in unstructured environments (1997) (190)
- Trading data space for reduced time and code space in real-time garbage collection on stock hardware (1984) (187)
- The relationship between matter and life (2001) (181)
- Alternative Essences of Intelligence (1998) (180)
- Asynchronous Distributed Control System For A Mobile Robot (1987) (173)
- From earwigs to humans (1997) (158)
- Lunar base construction robots (1990) (157)
- A layered intelligent control system for a mobile robot (1986) (147)
- The ACRONYM Model-Based Vision System (1979) (145)
- The "Artificial Life" Route to "Artificial Intelligence": Building Situated Embodied Agents (1995) (143)
- Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (2016) (123)
- Autonomous mobile robots (1990) (112)
- Sensing and Manipulating Built-for-Human Environments (2004) (110)
- Integrated systems based on behaviors (1991) (106)
- Challenges for complete creature architectures (1991) (105)
- A hardware retargetable distributed layered architecture for mobile robot control (1987) (99)
- Artificial Life IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simlulation of Living Systmes (1994) (98)
- Real Robots, Real Learning Problems (1993) (96)
- Natural decomposition of free space for path planning (1985) (92)
- Coherent behavior from many adaptive processes (1994) (77)
- PLANNING IS JUST A WAY OF AVOIDING FIGURING OUT WHAT TO DO NEXT (1987) (76)
- Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines (2002) (76)
- An approach to automatic robot programming (1986) (72)
- Flesh and machines (2001) (72)
- Solving the Find-Path Problem by Representing Free Space as Generalized Cones (1982) (68)
- Situated Vision in a Dynamic World: Chasing Objects (1988) (67)
- How to Build Complete Creatures Rather than Isolated Cognitive Simulators (2014) (63)
- Small planetary rovers (1990) (61)
- Living Machines (2001) (56)
- Model-Based Computer Vision (1984) (53)
- An optimizing compiler for lexically scoped LISP (1982) (53)
- Challenge problems for artificial intelligence (1996) (51)
- The whole iguana (1989) (50)
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1989) (49)
- Entrepreneurship in American Higher Education (2007) (49)
- The Cog Project (1997) (47)
- Behavior-based humanoid robotics (1996) (47)
- Prospects for Human Level Intelligence for Humanoid Robots (1998) (44)
- HERBERT: A Second Generation Mobile Robot (1988) (43)
- COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY (2005) (42)
- Robot Beings (1989) (42)
- Turing centenary: Is the brain a good model for machine intelligence? (2012) (42)
- Self Calibration of Motion and Stereo Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation. (1987) (35)
- The role of learning in autonomous robots (1991) (35)
- Learning a Distributed Map Representation Based on Navigation Behaviors (1999) (34)
- Robot emotions: A functional perspective (2004) (32)
- MIT mobile robots-what's next? (1988) (30)
- Self calibration of motion and stereo vision for mobile robots (1988) (29)
- S-1 Common Lisp implementation (1982) (28)
- Petitagé: A Case Study in Developmental Robotics (2001) (28)
- Design of an optimizing, dynamically retargetable compiler for common Lisp (1986) (26)
- I, Rodney Brooks, am a robot (2008) (25)
- Twilight Zones and Cornerstones: A Gnat Robot Double Feature (1989) (24)
- Building Robots: Expectations and Experiences (1989) (24)
- Intelligence for miniature robots (1989) (24)
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence (2002) (23)
- The Transmission System (1971) (22)
- A robot that walks: emergent behaviors (1991) (22)
- The world's largest one cubic inch robot (1989) (21)
- SQUIRT: The Prototypical Mobile Robot for Autonomous Graduate Students (1989) (21)
- A Mobile Robot with Onboard Parallel Processor and Large Workspace Arm (1986) (20)
- Battling Reality (1989) (20)
- Artificial life: From robot dreams to reality (2000) (20)
- AI's greatest trends and controversies (2000) (19)
- A robust programming scheme for a mobile robot (1987) (18)
- Steps Towards Living Machines (2001) (17)
- The next 50 years (2008) (17)
- A critique of common LISP (1984) (15)
- Ferroelectric thin films for piezoelectric micromotors (1994) (15)
- Robot Emotion (2005) (14)
- Human-Robot Dynamic Social Interaction (2003) (14)
- Programming in Common LISP (1985) (13)
- Engineering Approach To Building Complete, Intelligent Beings (1989) (12)
- Coordinating Multiple Goals for a Mobile Robot (1986) (12)
- L – A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems (2004) (11)
- Network Based Autonomous Robot Motor Control: from Hormones to Learning (1990) (10)
- Panel Review of the Semi-Automated Forces (1989) (10)
- Robotic cars won't understand us, and we won't cut them much slack (2017) (10)
- Conditional expectations associated with stochastic processes (1972) (10)
- Outcomes of Follow-up Visits After Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations (2018) (9)
- A Model Of Human Cognitive Behavior in Writing Code For Computer Programs (1975) (9)
- Situated Vision in a Dynamic Environment: Chasing Objects (1988) (9)
- Find-Path for a PUMA-Class Robot (1983) (9)
- Technologies for Human/Humanoid Natural Interactions (1999) (7)
- Vision and spatial modeling for mobile robots (1989) (6)
- Human level cognition in embodied robots (1993) (6)
- A Mobile Robot Project (1985) (5)
- Lisp-in-Lisp: High Performance and Portability (1983) (5)
- Challenge Problems for Artiicial Intelligence (1996) (5)
- Natural Tasking of Robots Based on Human Interaction Cues (2005) (5)
- A Brave, Creative, and Happy HRI (2018) (5)
- A Robot Being (1993) (4)
- Geometric Modeling In Vision For Manufacturing (1981) (4)
- Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium, ISRR 2005, October 12-15, 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA (2007) (4)
- Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) (2007) (4)
- Humanoid robot models of child development (2002) (3)
- Viewing Assignment of Moral Status to Service Robots from the Theological Ethics of Paul Tillich : Some Hard Questions (2007) (3)
- Interpretive Vision and Restriction Graphs (1980) (3)
- Introduction: 1998 Special Issue Neural control and robotics: biology and technology (1998) (3)
- Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence (Panel Statements) (1996) (3)
- The Electrical System (1973) (3)
- Chronicle of cybernetics pioneers (2010) (2)
- A Human in the Loop: AI won't Surpass Human Intelligence Anytime Soon (2021) (2)
- Day of Illness and Outcomes in Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations (2020) (2)
- The Future of Robots (2002) (2)
- Healthcare utilization in children across the care continuum during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) (2)
- A Physics Tragedy (2017) (1)
- Hardware Implementation of Artificial Life-Artificial Insect (1994) (1)
- The Neglected Phenomenon of Negative Feedback Control (2015) (1)
- Small autonomous mobile robots: sensing and action (1991) (1)
- A few key questions can help you distinguish winners from losers (2018) (1)
- The Philosophical Underpinnings of Work in Artificial Life (2018) (1)
- Robots everywhere (2009) (1)
- Using Human Development As A Model For Adaptive Robotics (1998) (1)
- Understanding artificial intelligence : from the editors of Scientific American (2002) (1)
- Evaluation of the Implementation of the 4C Mortality Score in United Kingdom hospitals during the second pandemic wave (2021) (1)
- The Fuel System (1973) (1)
- The Braking System (1973) (1)
- Behaviour-based Robots for Dangerous and Difficult Environments (1998) (1)
- Wheels and Tyres (1981) (0)
- Suspension and Steering (Including Wheels and Tyres) (1971) (0)
- Fastening and Locking Devices (1981) (0)
- Maintaining Trust on the Network (2004) (0)
- Human-like intelligence requires human-like interactions with the world . ” – (2015) (0)
- There Is an Answer (2017) (0)
- The Ignition System (1973) (0)
- You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet: The Coming Techno Revolution (2001) (0)
- Heat, Temperature, Pressure (1981) (0)
- Cleaning and Valeting (1973) (0)
- Force And Moments (1981) (0)
- Challenges for Human-Level Intelligence (2019) (0)
- Arm Location Current Location Rel. Move Back (1y) N.a. Arm Location Current Location Rel. Rotation (1a) N.a. Flip 4 (2007) (0)
- The Robots are Coming: Will Machines Take Over? (2001) (0)
- Intelligence W i t h o u t Reason (0)
- Title: Learning Functional Mappings between Sensorimotor Systems on a Humanoid Robot Submitted By (2007) (0)
- Tools and Soldering (1981) (0)
- Temperature, Pressure, Heat (1971) (0)
- Measurement And Marking Out (1981) (0)
- Editorial (1997) (0)
- The clinical significance of thrombocytosis in children with viral respiratory tract infections (2022) (0)
- Get rid of that debt before you retire (2015) (0)
- Network Security Problems (2004) (0)
- Part 1 Motor Vehicle Craft Studies (1971) (0)
- Associated Studies for Motor Vehicle Mechanics (381) (1972) (0)
- Heavy Vehicle Technology (381) (1972) (0)
- Energy, Work, Power (1981) (0)
- The Petrol Engine (1973) (0)
- Marking out, Measurement, and Limits and Fits (1971) (0)
- Review of Rodney A. Brooks : Intelligence without Reason (1998) (0)
- What's your retirement IQ? For most, it's lousy (2014) (0)
- YODA The Young Observant Discovery Agent (2010) (0)
- Light Vehicle Technology (381) (1972) (0)
- Machines Like Humans (2001) (0)
- Transmission: Final Drive (1981) (0)
- Motor Cycles and Scooters (1973) (0)
- A collection of papers presented to ANZAAS 1977, August 29th-September 2nd (1977) (0)
- Chassis Layout and Vehicle Body (1981) (0)
- Motor Vehicle Work for Link Courses (1973) (0)
- Force, Moments, Work, Power (1971) (0)
- Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (BRIEFING CHARTS) (2007) (0)
- Carnap, Rudolf, 17,114,115 n, 227, 252 Cams, Paul, 43 Chisholm, Roderick, 17 Chomsky, Noam, 130 (2002) (0)
- Introduction to Motor Vehicle Craft (1984) (0)
- Takashi Gomi: contributor, organizer, interpreter, friend (2014) (0)
- Multiple unfused passive sensors for operating in busy indoor environments (1991) (0)
- The Cooling System (1973) (0)
- Environmental Liability and Participation: The Second-Best Solution (1995) (0)
- Friction and Lubrication (1971) (0)
- Has Science Abolished God (2001) (0)
- ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT 1987 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON (1987) (0)
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