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 capabilitycapableincrease share on social
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people. Rodney Brooks interactmachinepeople Change image and share on social
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 attentionbuildimportant share on social
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 deploylimitreasonable Change image and share on social
We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us. Rodney Brooks acceptbiologymachine Change image and share on social
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 dulljobmachine Change image and share on social
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 beginboardbuild share on social
Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time. Rodney Brooks scarysciencetechnology Change image and share on social
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 alivebuildmachine Change image and share on social
The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems. Rodney Brooks benefitoutweighproblem Change image and share on social
