About
Rodney Brooks has cofounded six companies, including iRobot (maker of the Roomba), Rethink Robotics, and Robust.AI, where the team builds collaborative mobile robots for warehouses and manufacturing. He completed a Master's thesis on machine learning in Australia (1977) and a PhD on computer vision at Stanford (1981), and while on the MIT faculty developed behavior-based robot control. He directed the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from 1997 to 2007 and was the founding director of MIT CSAIL.
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Invests in
AI & Machine LearningRobotics
Experience
- Robust.AICTO & Foundercurrent2019 — presentPalo Alto, California
- Rethink RoboticsCTO, Chairman, Founder2008 — 2018
- iRobotCo-founder, CTO, Board member1990 — 2011
- MITPanasonic Professor of Robotics1984 — 2010
- LucidCo-founder, Compiler hacker/architect1984 — 1992Menlo Park, CA
- Stanford UniversityAssistant Professor1983 — 1984
- MITResearch Scientist1981 — 1983
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Scientist1981
Education
- Stanford UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science1977 — 1981
- Flinders UniversityB.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc.1972 — 1977
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Shared employers
Also worked at Robust.AI2
Also worked at iRobot7
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